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

An early modern ship’s surgeon had to treat not just broken bones but distress and trauma. I n September 1649 ship’s surgeon John Conny was deeply relieved and praised God that ‘all our men [are] in ...

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

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

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

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

Greene’s attack is significant as it is the earliest surviving reference to Shakespeare as a writer of plays. But, precisely ...

Ancient Egypt’s bureaucratic society depended on an army of scribes. To get ahead, you had to be able to write – but that didn’t necessarily mean mastering hieroglyphs.

In 1787 the Quakers of Portsmouth made their anti-slavery campaign official by forming The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, joining forces with prominent abolitionists such as ...

The Society of Jesus was founded in Rome in 1539 by Ignatius of Loyola and nine companions, all priests, who placed themselves under a vow of obedience to Pope Paul III. Ignatius was a former soldier, ...

A milestone in railway transportation, George Stephenson's first steam train was unveiled on July 25th, 1814.

Contributors to History Today have been exploring the origins, conduct and aftermath of the Second World War since the 1950s. The magazine’s archive is a treasure-trove of scholarly reflection on the ...