History Today

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. The final issue of History Review was published in April 2012.[7]

• Peter Quennell (January 1951–October 1979) and Alan Hodge (January 1951–June 1979)
• Michael Crowder (November 1979–July 1981)
• Michael Trend (August 1981–April 1982)
• Juliet Gardiner (May 1982– August 1985)
• Gordon Marsden (September 1985–October 1997)[8]
• Peter Furtado (January 1998–August 2008)[9]
• Paul Lay (January 2009–January 2022)[10]
• Rhys Griffiths and Kate Wiles (July 2022–present)[11]

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]

• Official website