On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-It-All by Arnoud S.Q. Visser explores the long history of anti-intellectualism ...

The Queenship of Mathilda of Flanders, c.1031-1083: Embodying Conquest by Laura L. Gathagan traces the material legacy of the ...

The vast deserts of the American West posed logistical problems for the US Army. Camels offered a novel solution.

Two recent books, The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin by Dan Edelstein and Revolutions: A ...

How to read more? We might take instruction from a more leisurely age.

History Today was first published 75 years ago this month.

History Today was first published on 12 January 1951. Our readers and contributors share their memories of the magazine 75 ...

The emirate of Granada – Islam’s last polity in Spain – was surrendered to the Catholic monarchs on 2 January 1492.

In 1563 Elizabeth Flynte, a servant from Haselor, Warwickshire, described the extra-marital activities of her mistress to the church court of the Lichfield diocese: He come in here this night, ...

‘Which moment would I most like to go back to? Just before the Big Bang. I realise there are risks attached.’ I opted for Latin America in the late 1960s when HMG, alarmed by the Cuban Revolution, ...

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954) is a profoundly – even unsettlingly – historical novel. Granted, it doesn’t look like one at first. Set either in Golding’s own day, or in the very near ...

At its height Oxford’s book trade enjoyed the establishment of Dominican and Franciscan friaries in need of books for university activities and preaching, and an early demand from lay figures for ...