History of a Tangled Relationship by Stefan Creuzberger discovers the dynamic that defines Europe. On 27 February 2022, three days into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz ...

A New History of Tudor and Stuart England by Nandini Das and A Golden World: How the Americas Transformed Renaissance England ...

Tim Harris explores the political spin, intolerance and repression that underlay Charles II’s relaxed image, and which led him into a deep crisis in 1678-81 yet also enabled him to survive it. Most ...

The shocking murder of its royal family in June 2001 changed the course of Nepal’s history. On the massacre’s 25th ...

Please note: we have not amended the text of this article, and the spelling of Chinggis Khan remains as it appeared in the June 2015 print edition of History Today. History's greatest conqueror ...

Though he didn't invent it, the guillotine was named for a French doctor, who died on 26 March 1814. The man who gave his name to Madame la Guillotine or The Widow (La Veuve) was born at Saintes in ...

In the 1960s Iran and Israel were on friendly terms. One Iranian writer, Jalal Al-e Ahmad, saw the Jewish state as a model ...

On 31 May 1786 Paris relished the humiliation of Marie Antoinette as the Affaire du collier de la reine concluded in court.

For H.P. Lovecraft there was nothing as familiar – or as frightening – as the past. Born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1890, ...

In Churchill and the Crown, Ted Powell explores the interwoven lives of Britain’s Marlborough man and the monarchs he served. There have been many notable courtier-politicians in British history. From ...

Ever since his own time it has been agreed that Richard Cromwell was not the man his father was, which may have been no bad thing. Born in 1626, he remained in the background as the Civil War ended, ...