Volume: 58 Issue: 12

Lucy Winstanley describes an unusual cemetery of the 1914-18 War, the burial place of Chinese workers who joined the Allied forces in the war against the Kaiser.

At the end of the First World War, the British monarchy sought to strengthen bonds across the English-speaking world. Frank Prochaska discusses the ambassadorial...

The founding father of nuclear physics was awarded the highest honour on December 10th, 1908.

In the event Spain and Portugal divided almost all of South America between, them but in the sixteenth century the French also had commercial and colonial...

When US astronauts were blown away by their first view of Earth from space, forty years ago this month, the moment re-energized One World ideals of unity and peace,...

Nigel Watson reports the decision to keep Cornwall’s telecommunications operation going after all.

Mark Bryant looks at the cartoons produced in response to the conflict which followed the Opium Wars between China and the West.

Today a Documentation Centre stands on the site of the former Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg. Neil Gregor reflects on the city council’s response to the neo-...

 Whether or not mothers should nurse their own children has been a subject of debate from Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome through all of modern European history to...

Frances Borzello seeks to explain the rise of women’s clubs in London before the First World War – and their equally swift demise.

 Alastair Bonnett investigates the intriguing and often controversial history of African Native Americans – black Indians – in the light of present-day concerns about...

Liz Homans looks back over the long campaign to remove the death penalty from the statute book in Britain.

History Today asked some of Britain’s leading historians which history book or books they had most enjoyed reading in 2008. Here we publish their choices with some...

York Membery looks back to the crunch 1920s election which saw the party of Gladstone narrowly pushed into third place – a position from which it has never...

M.J. Cohen celebrates the life of Thomas Fuller, a pioneer historian and contemporary of Milton, with whom he shares a 400th anniversary.