user avatar
History Today
@HistoryToday
𝑻𝒉𝒆 π’˜π’π’“π’π’…β€™π’” π’π’†π’‚π’…π’Šπ’π’ˆ π’‰π’Šπ’”π’•π’π’“π’š π’Žπ’‚π’ˆπ’‚π’›π’Šπ’π’†. Try 3 issues for Β£5 at historytoday.com/subscribe
London, UK
historytoday.com
Joined July 2008
277
Following
291K
Followers
  • Pinned
    user avatar
    History Today
    @HistoryToday
    May 21
    The new issue of History Today is in UK stores now. Featuring: Papal conclaves, the murder of #AungSan, #Pericles, British #fascism, forestry in the #FrenchRevolution, and more. Find out what else is inside and order it directly from our store at buff.ly/h97sXpE
    1.4K
  • user avatar
    History Today
    @HistoryToday
    Apr 22, 2019
    Menstruation is rarely a topic that comes to mind when we think about the Holocaust. But this shared experience was a source of both shame and salvation for the Nazis’ female victims.
    Menstruation and the Holocaust
    From historytoday.com
  • user avatar
    History Today
    @HistoryToday
    Oct 22, 2018
    Congratulations to @OlivetteOtele on becoming the first black woman to be made a professor of history in Britain. Here she is 'On the Spot' earlier this year. historytoday.com/history-today/…
  • user avatar
    History Today
    @HistoryToday
    Sep 28, 2022
    Elizabeth Garrett Anderson passed her medical exams #OnThisDay in 1865. The following year she opened a hospital solely for women, staffed solely by women, which drew crowds of patients.
    Britain’s First Female Doctor
    From historytoday.com
  • user avatar
    History Today
    @HistoryToday
    Jul 2, 2020
    Replying to @Joanne_Paul_ @cath_fletcher and @rain_later
    David Starkey is no longer a member of the History Today editorial advisory board. – Andy Patterson, Publisher.
  • user avatar
    History Today
    @HistoryToday
    Sep 28, 2019
    #OnThisDay in 1865, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson passed her medical exams. The following year she opened a hospital solely for women, staffed solely by women, which drew crowds of patients. bit.ly/2YOt002
  • user avatar
    History Today
    @HistoryToday
    Mar 9, 2014
    Cat wearing jetpack in 16th century drawing baffles historians deathandtaxesmag.com/216391/cat-wea… via @DeathAndTaxes
  • user avatar
    History Today
    @HistoryToday
    Dec 12, 2018
    β€˜More than a third of the city’s population now immigrants.’ Today that reads like a shock tabloid headline, but 450 years ago in Norwich, refugees were welcomed. historytoday.com/frank-meeres/w…
  • user avatar
    History Today
    @HistoryToday
    Jul 5, 2019
    The Romans introduced at least 50 new species of plant foods to Britain. These included fruits, such as peach, pear, fig, mulberry, sour cherry, plum, damson, date and pomegranate, along with almond, pine nut, sweet chestnut and walnut.
    What Have the Romans Done for Us?
    From historytoday.com
  • user avatar
    History Today
    @HistoryToday
    Jan 26, 2023
    Indonesia’s bloody past has produced a country populated with ghosts. Now, they are sharing their stories on YouTube. ✍️ @Tito_Ambyo
    Ghosts of Java
    From historytoday.com
    39K
  • user avatar
    History Today
    @HistoryToday
    Oct 21, 2019
    Middle-aged women of the 18th century were seen as extremely erotic – though it may surprise historians fixated on spinsters and widows. History Today-@RoyalHistSoc 2019 Undergraduate Dissertation Prize: bit.ly/2N4Teb0
  • user avatar
    History Today
    @HistoryToday
    Jun 28, 2014
    The blood-soaked uniform Archduke Franz Ferdinand was wearing when he was assassinated in on this day in 1914
  • user avatar
    History Today
    @HistoryToday
    May 20, 2020
    A former slave who led a revolution and became Napoleon’s foe, Toussaint Louverture’s destruction by the French state was not forgotten. From the forthcoming June issue:
    The Wrongful Death of Toussaint Louverture
    From historytoday.com
  • user avatar
    History Today
    @HistoryToday
    Sep 19, 2018
    Boudica, Boudicca, Boadicea, Boudicea, Buddug. Who was she? historytoday.com/martha-vandrei…