On 25 July 1908 chemistry professor Kikunae Ikeda gave name to an elusive new taste: umami.

José Martí Reader: Writings on the Americas, edited by Deborah Shnookal and Mirta Muñiz, collects the works of Cuba's ‘Apostle of Independence’.

British military engagement in northwest Europe did not pause after Waterloo and resume in 1914. The intervening century saw ...

Hertha Ayrton’s experiment in a bathtub may have saved lives in the trenches, but it caused ripples among the ranks of the ...

Hinduism predates colonialism by thousands of years, but in Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu ...

I ronically, when we speak about inquisitions, people have come to expect the Spanish Inquisition. But inquisitions into the ...

Greene’s attack is significant as it is the earliest surviving reference to Shakespeare as a writer of plays. But, precisely for this reason, it also leaves us with a problem. If Shakespeare was ...

‘I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer’: Letters on Love and Marriage from the World’s First Personal Advice Column by Mary Beth ...

In March 1960 Julius Nyerere – then leader of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) – sat down with former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt on her roundtable discussion programme Prospects of ...

How to reform an ancient Greek tyrant? Plato’s final advice to Dionysius the Younger was not well received.

In 1905 the prison population of England and Wales was 21,525 and rising. In the decade that followed, that number nearly halved to 11,311. The trend continued, reaching a 20th-century low of 9,199 in ...

The Cold War is a carefully curated, comprehensive selection of the best History Today articles on a global conflict which continues to shape the modern world. The Cold War’s defining moments and ...