History Today
{{Short description|History magazine, founded in 1951}}
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{{Infobox Magazine
| title = History Today
| image_file = History_Today_March_2024.jpeg
| image_size =
| image_caption = History Today, March 2024.
| editor = Rhys Griffiths and Kate Wiles
| frequency = Monthly
| circulation = 17,100 (2019)
| company = History Today Ltd
| publisher = Amanda Synnott
| firstdate = {{start date and age|January 1951}}
| country = United Kingdom
| based = London
| language = English
| website = [https://www.historytoday.com www.historytoday.com]
| issn = 0018-2753
}}
History Today is a history magazine. Published monthly in London since January 1951, it presents authoritative history to as wide a public as possible.{{cite book|author=Terry Haydn |title=Commercialised History. Popular History Magazines in Europe: Approaches to a Historico-Cultural Phenomenon as the Basis for History Teaching|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/j.ctv9hj7qx.13.pdf|date=2015|publisher=Peter Lang AG|pages=275–294|chapter=History magazines in the UK|jstor=j.ctv9hj7qx.13 |isbn=9783631657799 }} The magazine covers all periods and geographical regions and publishes articles of traditional narrative history alongside new research and historiography.{{Cite web|last=iholowaty|date=2015-05-19|title=New e-access: History Today, 1951-current|url=https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/history/2015/05/19/new-historytoday/|access-date=2022-02-24|website=Bodleian History Faculty Library at Oxford|language=en-US}}
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.{{Cite web|author=Peter Furtado|title=History Today - Articles - Making History|url=https://archives.history.ac.uk/makinghistory/resources/articles/history_today.html|access-date=2022-02-24|website=archives.history.ac.uk}} The magazine has been independently owned since 1981.{{Cite web|date=2021-06-30|title=History Today and tomorrow - trust established to take over History Today magazine - Brief Article|url=https://indexarticles.com/reference/history-today/history-today-and-tomorrow-trust-established-to-take-over-history-today-magazine-brief-article/|access-date=2022-02-24|website=IndexArticles|language=en-US}} The founding co-editors were Peter Quennell, a "dashing English man of letters",{{Cite news|last=Lambert|first=Bruce|date=1993-10-31|title=Peter Quennell, a Man of Letters And Man About Town, Dies at 88|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/31/obituaries/peter-quennell-a-man-of-letters-and-man-about-town-dies-at-88.html|access-date=2022-02-24|issn=0362-4331}} and Alan Hodge, former journalist at the Financial Times.
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.{{Cite web|title=History Today magazine changes digital publishing platform, launches new digital edition app|url=http://www.talkingnewmedia.com/2015/11/02/history-today-magazine-changes-digital-publishing-platform-relaunches-digital-edition-app/|access-date=2022-01-24|language=en-US}}
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.{{Cite web|title=British Library Item details|url=http://primocat.bl.uk/F?func=direct&local_base=ITEMV&doc_number=010818910&con_lng=eng&_ga=2.118719945.1729707246.1645713419-1355813505.1645713419|access-date=2022-02-24|website=primocat.bl.uk}}
Editors
- 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){{Cite news|date=2002-10-21|title=Gordon Marsden|language=en-GB|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2053896.stm|access-date=2022-02-24}}
- Peter Furtado (January 1998–August 2008){{Cite web|title=Peter Furtado|url=https://thamesandhudson.com/authors/peter-furtado-38644|access-date=2022-02-24|website=thamesandhudson.com}}
- Paul Lay (January 2009–January 2022){{Cite web|date=2022-02-24|title=Media jobs UK: Latest big moves in news media tracked by Press Gazette|url=https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-jobs-uk-news/|access-date=2022-02-24|website=Press Gazette|language=en-US}}
- Rhys Griffiths and Kate Wiles (July 2022–present){{Cite web |title=Masthead {{!}} History Today. |url=https://www.historytoday.com/masthead |access-date=2022-06-23 |website=www.historytoday.com}}
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.{{Cite web|date=2011-11-09|title=The Longman-History Today Book of the Year longlist is announced, with three Yale titles in the running|url=https://yalebooksblog.co.uk/2011/11/09/the-longman-history-today-book-of-the-year-longlist-is-announced-with-three-yale-titles-in-the-running/|access-date=2022-02-25|website=Yale University Press London Blog|language=en-US}} Since 2003, a prize for an undergraduate dissertation has been presented in association with the Royal Historical Society.{{citation|work=Royal Historical Society|title=Transactions of the Royal Historical Society |volume=12|issue=Sixth Series|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ed_6gw5_5TkC&pg=PA480|date=16 January 2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-81561-1}} The Trustees' Award is presented to a person or organisation that has made a major contribution to history.{{Cite web|url=https://www.historytoday.com/longman-history-today-awards|title=Awards; History Today|website=www.historytoday.com}} Past winners of the Trustees' Award include Professor David Olusoga.{{Cite web|title=Top historian for University of Bedfordshire's Black and British online event|author= Bev Creagh|url=https://www.lutontoday.co.uk/news/people/top-historian-for-university-of-bedfordshires-black-and-british-online-event-3406503|date= 2021-10-04|access-date=2022-02-25|website=www.lutontoday.co.uk|language=en}}
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