The First Great Depression and the Making of the Modern World by Liaquat Ahamed explores one financial panic amongst many.

Roger Hudson describes the destruction during the Paris Commune of the memorial to Napoleon’s victory at Austerlitz in 1805. One of the entrances to the Place Vendôme at the heart of fashionable Paris ...

The two Kennedy brothers were assassinated within five years of each other. Robert Francis Kennedy was forty-two when he was shot down in Los Angeles. The seventh child of his family and the ...

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 ...

It took an Irish Gothic novelist to tie up centuries of demonic mythology surrounding the bat with the publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Since the publication of Stoker’s novel, the connection has ...

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

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.

According to legend while the Cunard-White Star Line’s new Hull Number 534 was under construction at the John Brown and Company’s shipworks on the Clyde no women were allowed anywhere near it in case ...