This Month's Magazine
In the March edition of History Today we look at Albert Speer’s plan to transform Berlin into Germania, Hitler’s vast new capital of a thousand-year Reich. Roger Moorhouse's essay shows how Germania was a perfect reflection of the dark, misanthropic heart of Nazism.
Also in this issue: Richard Hughes uncovers the patriotic efforts of the actor and playwright Noël Coward during the Second World War; Tim Stanley questions President Obama's admiration for Teddy Roosevelt; Alex Keller tells the story of Italy’s first scientific society and its influence on the young Galileo Galilei; Patrick Bishop explains Churchill’s near reckless obsession with the German battleship Tirpitz; and Kate Retford explains how the royal artist Johan Zoffany destroyed his relationship with George III and Queen Charlotte.
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Main Features
Richard Hughes uncovers the patriotic efforts of the actor and playwright Noël Coward during the Second World War and argues that he should be remembered for more than merely entertaining the troops.
Alex Keller tells the story of how an unlikely friendship between a Dutch doctor and a young Italian nobleman led to the establishment of the first scientific society, which lent crucial support to the radical ideas of Galileo Galilei.
Kate Retford explains how the artist Johan Zoffany found ways to promote a fresh image of royalty that endeared him to George III and Queen Charlotte – a relationship he subsequently destroyed.
Guibert of Nogent was a flawed abbot in northern France, who found it difficult to adapt to the changes wrought by the 12th-century Renaissance. Yet his newly translated writings are among the first works in the West to examine man’s inner life, says Charles Freeman.
Albert Speer’s plan to transform Berlin into the capital of a 1,000-year Reich would have created a vast monument to misanthropy, as Roger Moorhouse explains.
Today's History
Global history has become a vigorous field in recent years, examining all parts of the empires of Europe and Asia and moving beyond the confines of ‘top-down’ diplomatic history, as Peter Mandler explains.
Churchill’s four-year quest to sink Hitler’s capital ship Tirpitz saw Allied airmen and sailors run risks that would be hard to justify today, says Patrick Bishop.
The 19th-century view from Albion of the shortcomings of the US Constitution was remarkably astute, says Frank Prochaska.
History Matters
One of Britain’s finest Renaissance scholars and a ground-breaking study of the night in Early Modern Europe were among the winners at our annual celebration of excellence in history.
The historical debate over the United Kingdom has been led by those who wish to bring the Union to an end. David Torrance believes the public deserves a more balanced discussion.
Jonathan Downs reports on the fire last December that caused extensive damage to one of Egypt’s most important collections of historical manuscripts.
Other articles
Barack Obama’s admiration for the progressive Republicanism of Theodore Roosevelt ignores the true nature of both early 20th-century America and the president who embodied it, argues Tim Stanley.
The Flemish cartographer was born on March 5th, 1512.
Constructing the Victoria Embankment on the north bank of the River Thames in London: an image analysed by Roger Hudson.
A selection of readers' correspondence with the editor, Paul Lay.
Ivan became Grand Prince on March 27th 1462, following the death of his father.
Tom Holland argues that the return of religion and the West’s current obsession with decline make Roy Porter’s profile of Edward Gibbon, first published in History Today in 1986, curiously dated.
Reviews
How did a quintessential German scholar become an anglicised architectural pundit, broadcaster and national treasure?
Jeremy Paxman's book on Britain's imperial story is an idiosyncratic, droll but ultimately useful introduction to the subject.
Two new books show that 16th-century history is about more than Henry VIII.
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