History Today

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History Today
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History Today, March 2024.
EditorRhys Griffiths and Kate Wiles
FrequencyMonthly
Circulation 17,100 (2019)
PublisherAmanda Synott
First issueJanuary 1951;73 years ago (January 1951)
CompanyHistory Today Ltd
CountryUnited Kingdom
Based inLondon
LanguageEnglish
Website www.historytoday.com
ISSN 0018-2753

History Today is a history magazine. Published monthly in London since January 1951, it presents serious and authoritative history to as wide a public as possible. [1] The magazine covers all periods and geographical regions and publishes articles of traditional narrative history alongside new research and historiography. [2]

Contents

History

The magazine was founded after the Second World War, by Brendan Bracken, former Minister of Information, chairman of the Financial Times and close associate of Sir Winston Churchill. [3] The magazine has been independently owned since 1981. [4] The founding co-editors were Peter Quennell, a "dashing English man of letters", [5] and Alan Hodge, former journalist at the Financial Times. [3]

The website contains all the magazine's published content since 1951. A digital edition, available on a dedicated app, was launched in 2012 and re-released with improvements in 2015. [6]

History Review was a tri-annual sister publication of History Today magazine publishing material for sixth form level history students. Launched in 1995, the final issue of History Review was published in April 2012. [7]

Editors

Awards

Since 1997, The Longman-History Today Charitable Trust has held an annual awards ceremony at which presentations are made to those that have fostered a wider understanding of, and enthusiasm for, history. The main prize in the Longman-History Today Awards is for Book of the Year, given for an author's first or second history book. [12] Since 2003, a prize for an undergraduate dissertation has been presented in association with the Royal Historical Society. [13] The Trustees' Award is presented to a person or organisation that has made a major contribution to history. [14] Past winners of the Trustees' Award include Professor David Olusoga. [15]

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