Court-martialled in absentia on 2 August 1940, the Vichy regime confiscated de Gaulle’s property and condemned him to death.

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 ...

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

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 ...