History Today, Vol. 76 #5

Bringing serious history to a wide audience since 1951. Published monthly, the magazine asks the world’s leading scholars to write informatively and engagingly on all periods, regions, and themes of history.

This is the May 2026 issue of the magazine launched by Winston Churchill in 1951 and initially criticised for its silver-spoon nature, now independently run and praised for its accessibility to in-depth global history.

This edition leads with a feature spotlighting Britain on strike, exploring how—despite its swift defeat—the aftershock of the General Strike of May 1926 continues to ripple throughout the country 100 years down the line. Elsewhere, explore how a snake oil folk remedy briefly rose to prominence before being dismissed as a counterfeit, take an in depth look at the five year resistance in Morocco’s Rif Mountains against Spanish and French invaders, and discover the story of several private investigators who crowded British newspaper headlines in the 1970s.