Tag: Today
The Longest-Running Newspaper | History Today
The Restoration government needed to manage the news. In 1663 it gave the job to its censor, Roger L’Estrange....
Ploughing Up Postwar Britain | History Today
Prewar Britain was dependent on imported food; in 1938, 70 per cent of the cash value of the food...
The Birth of Spiritualism | History Today
‘What hath God wrought?’ Perhaps it is a coincidence, but in the spring of 1848 – four years after...
Was Dunsterforce a Disaster? | History Today
On a bleak morning in January 1918 one of the oddest military formations ever put into the field by...
What is Environmental History? | History Today
‘Environmental history is porous’
Joy Porter is 125th Anniversary Chair, Indigenous, Environmental & Heritage History at the University of Birmingham
Environmental...
The Radical John Wilkes | History Today
On 21 March 1776 the popular politician John Wilkes (1725-97) rose in a packed House of Commons to speak...
Victorian Science’s Duck-Billed Enigma | History Today
Platypus – Greek for ‘flat-footed’ – may sound a derogatory name, but that was the least of the problems...
The Real Middle Earth | History Today
One of the most engaging books I have read this year is A Little Learning: A Victorian Childhood, by...
Ghana Against Corruption | History Today
For the past 30 years Ghana has set an example for the durability of its democratic political system. Elections...
Shakespeare’s Lost Years | History Today
On 20 September 1592 a strange, yet immensely important, pamphlet was entered in the Stationer’s Register in London. Cobbled...
How Ancient Farmers Engineered the Avocados We Eat Today
Avocado remains from El Gigante illustrate how ancient farmers domesticated crops to adapt to changing environments. The global avocado...
Swahili on the Road | History Today
In March 1960 Julius Nyerere – then leader of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) – sat down with...