2010

A solution to the turmoil in the Middle East seems as far away as ever. But, says Martin Gilbert, past relations between Muslims and Jews have often been...

Richard Cavendish describes how Adolf Eichmann was captured in Argentina on May 11th, 1960.

Ben Sandell provides a series of tips on how to gain the best grade.

Sexually explicit jigs were a major part of the attraction of the Elizabethan, Jacobean and Restoration stage, as Lucie Skeaping explains. 

Ian Garrett advises on how to succeed under the new AQA rules.

As the daily life of Berlin's Jews became even more difficult under the Nazi regime, rumour and hearsay grew about the fate of those 'evacuated' to the east. How...

George I was born on May 28th, 1660. Richard Cavendish provides an overview of his life.

Early 17th century England saw the emergence of pirates, much romanticised creatures whose lives were often nasty, brutish and short. Adrian Tinniswood examines...

Richard Wilkinson is enthusiastic about a new biography.

Graham Goodlad assesses the political skills that helped Charles II to escape the unenviable fates of his father and brother.

In October 1935 Mussolini’s Fascist Italian forces invaded Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) at a crucial moment in the run-up to the Second World War. Daniel Whittall...

In 1959 Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba after a masterly campaign of guerrilla warfare. Drawing on this success, Castro and his followers, including Che Guevara...

In the 15th century, Cyriacus of Ancona journeyed in search of the Mediterranean’s Classical past. In so doing, he laid the groundwork for the 18th-century Grand...

Mary Heimann restores Czechoslovakia to its pivotal role in the Munich Crisis.

Exiled in London in June 1940, with France on the brink of defeat, Charles de Gaulle broadcast a speech that was to create an enduring bond between him and his...

Richard Cavendish provides an overview of the life and career of the Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha, who died on April 11th, 1985.

Rowena Hammal explain why the Korean War broke out in 1950.

Detective stories captured the imaginations of the British middle classes in the 20th century. William D. Rubinstein looks at the rise of home-grown writers such...

This month Nick Poyntz looks at how to access the wealth of digitised source material now available to historians.

The enormous growth in user-generated content made possible by such developments as the wiki, presents exciting opportunities as well as potential perils for...

This month Nick Poyntz examines the rapid rise of blogging among both professional historians and amateur enthusiasts.

Nick Poyntz looks at the ways in which the ubiquitous search engine is changing the nature of historical research.

To conclude his series on the opportunities offered to historians by new technology, Nick Poyntz looks at how recent developments may help to bridge the gap...

Nick Poyntz looks at the ways in which mobile phone 'apps' can bring historical insight to our everyday environment.

Digital technology is rapidly changing the nature and scope of historical enquiry for both academics and enthusiasts. Nick Poyntz introduces a new series that...

Britain has had a long and sometimes problematic relationship with alcohol. James Nicholls looks back over five centuries to examine the many, often unsuccessful,...

Has the British family undergone an unparalleled breakdown since the 1960s, as is often claimed? Pat Thane argues that there never was a golden age of domestic...

R. E. Foster sifts myth from reality in the life of the 'Lady with the Lamp', who died 100 years ago.

The author Graham Greene journeyed to West Africa in 1935, ostensibly to write a travel book. But, claims Tim Butcher, it was a cover for a spy mission on behalf...

Ian Friel argues that popular ideas of the nature of Elizabethan seapower are distorted by concentration on big names and major events. Elizabethan England’s...

Graham Darby points to common errors and omissions that should be avoided.

Rowena Hammal examines the fears and insecurities, as well as the bombast and jingoism, in British thinking.

Vincent Barnett welcomes a new introductory text on the most important modern British economist.

Almost everything written about and by Kim Philby is wrong, claims Boris Volodarsky. The Soviet spy and his KGB masters sought to exaggerate his successes against...

The murder of a 12-year-old boy in Norwich in 1144 inspired Thomas of Monmouth, a monk from the city's cathedral, to create an anti-semitic account of the incident...

Richard Hughes asks whether the ‘Diabolical Duchess’ was in reality another Tudor victim.

When Napoleon surrendered himself to a British naval captain after his defeat at Waterloo, the victors were faced with a judicial headache. Norman MacKenzie asks:...

Michael Scott-Baumann explains why Nasser is such an important figure in the Middle East in the twentieth century.

Opera has flourished in the United States. But how did this supposedly ‘elite’ art form become so deep-rooted in a nation devoted to popular culture and dedicated...

Football became a potent expression of Algeria’s struggle for independence, never more so than during the dramatic events that preceded the 1958 World Cup, as...

A mysterious child from northern Germany, portrayed by William Kent on the King’s Grand Staircase, became one of the sensations of the Georgian age, as Roger...

Corinne Julius is impressed by the breadth of material on display at London’s newly reopened Jewish Museum.

David Hipshon outlines the career of the most controversial king ever to have occupied the English throne.

At the height of the Roman Empire, hundreds of merchant ships left Egypt every year to voyage through the Red Sea into the Indian Ocean, exchanging the produce of...

Mark Rathbone puts the famous 1954 school segregation case, Brown v. Board of Education, into historical context.

Bernard Porter reviews the field of studies of British covert operations and espionage.

Viv Saunders reveals how sport and society are intertwined.

Stuart Clayton ask whether the mass media have undermined the status of leading authority figures in Britain since 1945.

Kevin Sharpe revisits an article by C.V. Wedgwood, first published in History Today in 1960, that looks at the diplomatic mission made by the artist Peter...

Robert Pearce examines the factors that led to Prussia's victory in the German civil war of 1866.

The Battle of Britain began on August 8th, 1940. Richard Overy looks behind the myth of a vulnerable island defended by a band of fighter pilots to give due credit...

Seventy years after the Battle of Britain, Richard Overy looks behind the myth of a vulnerable island defended by a small band of fighter pilots to give...

The Teutonic Knights were defeated at the Battle of Tannenberg, on July 15th, 1410.

Peter Donaldson examines how the British people reacted to the various stages of the South African war of 1899-1902.

Graham Goodlad examines the changing role of the occupant of Number Ten in an era of significant political change.

Graham Goodlad reviews the career of A.J. Balfour, an unsuccessful Prime Minister and party leader but an important and long-serving figure on the British...

Andrew Boxer explains why party political strife lacked real substance in the period after 1945.

The first Pony Express riders set off on April 3rd, 1860. Richard Cavendish charts its history.

Gemma Betros examines the problems the Revolution posed for religion, and that religion posed for the Revolution.

Ian Garrett shows that well-informed counter-factual speculation can help us understand better the causes and consequences of what did happen.

The Royal Society was founded in 1660 to promote scientific research. Through a process of trial and error, this completely new kind of institution slowly...

The League of Nations met for the last time on April 8th, 1946. Ruth Henig reassesses the importance of the League of Nations.

John Etty shows the vital importance of aviation in the Stalinist Soviet Union.

In the mid-18th century – at the height of the power struggle between France and England and the political ferment of both nations – a French spy with a peculiar...

Richard Cavendish marks the anniversary of the founding of Switzerland's first university, at Basel, on April 4th, 1460.

Richard Wilkinson elucidates the paradoxical career of one of the key figures of English Protestantism.

When Penguin Books was acquitted of obscenity for publishing Lady Chatterley’s Lover, a door was kicked open to the social revolution of the 1960s....

Keith Stapylton provides a novel viewpoint on one of Britain’s traditional centres of historical excellence.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo was founded on June 30th, 1960. Within a few days, however, there were army mutinies and disturbances around the country....

Lindsay Pollick reviews changing interpretations.

The American soldiers who fought their way through the islands of the Pacific during the Second World War encountered fierce Japanese...

Ben Sandell shows that grappling with the meaning of a key term can reveal much about the nature of conflict in 16th-century France.

Retha Warnicke investigates one of the key questions of Tudor England.

Richard Wilkinson enjoyed this recent biography of the prime minister who led Britain into the Second World War.

Graham Goodlad sees virtues in a new study of recent prime ministers.

Gidon Cohen commends a new biographical study of Karl Marx

Robert Pearce rates a new study central to the interwar years.