2011
King George V and Kaiser Wilhelm II pose together in 1912. However, the Kaiser had mixed feelings towards Britain and the First World War broke out two years later... |
Greg Carleton explains how disastrous defeats for the Soviet Union and the US in 1941 were transformed into positive national narratives by the two emerging... |
Gordon Marsden, a former editor of History Today, reflects on the advertisements that helped to fund the first 20 years of this magazine’s publication and... |
The fools of the early Tudor court were likely to have been people with learning disabilities as a new project demonstrates, says Suzannah Lipscomb. |
During the seventh century the Arabs invaded North Africa three times, bringing not just a new religion but a language and customs that were alien to the native... |
Graham Goodlad examines the role of Britain's postwar Labour government in the early stages of the Cold War. |
The greatest artists in the history of western painting are cooped up in a holding pen on New York's Ellis Island. |
For much of the British Civil Wars the colony of Barbados remained neutral, allowing both Parliamentarian and Royalist exiles to run their plantations and trade... |
Richard Cavendish charts the life of the author Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was born on June 14th, 1811. |
The leading Victorian radical and Liberal poltician John Bright was born on November 16th 1811. |
What was behind Colonel Thomas Blood’s failed attempt to steal the Crown Jewels during the cash-strapped reign of Charles II and how did he survive such a... |
Despite the popularity of shows like My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, Britain’s Gypsy Travellers still face longstanding prejudice, warns Becky Taylor. |
The standing of Britain’s police forces may be in decline at home, yet their insights into policing methods and practices are still sought eagerly elsewhere,... |
The successful Broadway run of The Pitmen Painters, Lee Hall’s drama set in a north-east mining community, has introduced US audiences to a remarkable... |
Michael Mullett shows that key Protestant reformers were influenced by Erasmus's Christian Humanism, as well as by Luther's theology. |
Simon Lemiuex asks why the Unionists dominated British politics between 1886 and 1906. |
Richard Cavendish remembers the assassination of Caliph Ali, on January 24th, 661. |
Few figures in British political history have endured such lingering hostility as the statesman who did so much to forge Europe’s post-Napoleonic settlement, says... |
Robert Bickers looks at an emerging archive of British photo albums that record both the drama of the 1911 revolution and the surprisingly untroubled daily lives... |
As China celebrates the centenary of the 1911 revolution this October Jonathan Fenby reappraises the uprising and argues that its failings heralded decades of... |
As China reclaims its central role in the world, Robert Bickers appeals to Britons and others in the West to take account of the legacy left by the country’s... |
Medieval knights were the sporting superstars and military heroes of their day, who performed before an adoring public in the tournament. Nigel Saul explains their... |
Andrew Boxer demonstrates the ways in which external events affected the struggles of African Americans in the 1950s and 1960s. |
As the Coalition government marks its first anniversary Martin Pugh sees its blend of Liberal and Conservative policies mirrored in the long and chequered career... |
Concorde began regular test flights above Britain 40 years ago this month. Jad Adams looks back to a time when, wracked by industrial decline, a nation embraced... |
Hugh Thomas tells Paul Lay about his unparalleled research into the lives of the extraordinary generation of men who conquered the New World for Golden Age Spain... |
Jean-Andre Prager demonstrates the wide-ranging impact of Darwinism. This essay was the winner of the Julia Wood Prize for 2011. |
Clovis I died in Paris on November 27th 511, aged 46. |
The creator of Meccano, Hornby model railways and Dinky toys died on September 21st, 1936, aged 73 and a millionaire. |
John French died on May 22nd, 1925. In this article from our June 2011 issue, Adam Hochschild looks at his relationship with his sister, Charlotte Despard, a... |
The Australian pioneer Robert O'Hara Burke died of starvation on June 30th, 1861. |
At the Coronation Durbar of 1911 George V announced that the capital of British India was to be transferred from Calcutta to Delhi. But the move to the new model... |
In the interests of historical research Lucy Worsley adopted the dental hygiene habits of previous centuries. |
The innocence of France’s Captain Dreyfus – a Jewish officer incarcerated on Devil’s Island after he was accused of spying for Germany – has long been established... |
Richard Cavendish describes Edward the Confessor's canonisation, on January 5th, 1161. |
Anne Sebba revisits Michael Bloch’s article, first published in History Today in 1979, on the historian Philip Guedalla’s enthusiastic but misguided... |
John Swinfield describes the bizarre politics behind the British government’s attempt to launch a pair of airships in the 1920s and how a project that might have... |
The anti-government protests in Egypt earlier this year swept through Cairo and Alexandria before measures could be taken to protect antiquities in museums and... |
The 50th anniversary of the trial and execution of the Final Solution’s master bureaucrat has inspired a number of books, exhibitions and films. David Cesarani... |
Brazil may be one of the 21st century’s emerging superpowers, but its history is a mystery to many. Gabriel Paquette tells the story of its early years as an... |
Rachel Hammersley discusses how events in the 1640s and 1680s in England established a tradition that inspired French thinkers on the path to revolution a century... |
Richard Cavendish explains how Europe's earliest modern-style banknotes were introduced by the Bank of Stockholm in the 17th century. |
To mark the 400th anniversary of his birth, UNESCO has declared Evliya Çelebi a ‘man of the year’. His Seyahatname, or Book of Travels, is one of the... |
Though superb works of art in themselves, the wildlife paintings of Francis Barlow are full of rich metaphors that shed light on the anxieties and concerns of a... |
History Today was launched in 1951, the year of the Festival of Britain. Barry Turner challenges Arthur Marwick’s impressions, first published in 1991, of... |
Alex von Tunzelmann reassesses a two-part article on the troubled relationship between the United States and Cuba, published in History Today 50 years ago... |
James Walvin praises Arnold Whitridge's study of the Atlantic slave trade, first published in History Today in 1958 |
Paul Lay introduces the June issue of our 61st volume. |
Paul Lay introduces the May issue of our 61st volume. |
The discovery of a letter written by the great physician sheds new light on one of the most dramatic events in Roman history, as Raoul McLaughlin explains. |
Benjamin Zachariah helps to debunk the romantic 'Legend of the Mahatma'. |
One hundred and fifty years after the establishment of the Kingdom of Italy, Graham Darby reassesses the contribution of one of the key players. |
Gated communities may be growing in number but they are nothing new, as Michael Nelson knows from personal experience. |
Richard Cavendish describes how General Somoza organised an armed uprising and seized power in Nicaragua, on June 9th 1936. |
In the late 18th century the merchants, manufacturers and traders of Liverpool founded one of the first chambers of commerce in Britain with the aim of promoting... |
Tim Grady on postwar Germany’s attempts to remember the contribution made by its Jewish combatants in the First World War. |
Ben Sandell examines the origins, influence and significance of a group of often misunderstood radicals. |
Goa fell to Indian troops on December 19th 1961. |
James Whitfield on why the theft of a Spanish master’s portrait of a British military hero led to a change in the law. |
Natasha McEnroe on the reopening of a fascinating but little-known collection. |
The poor economic record of Greece goes back a very long way, says Matthew Lynn. |
D.R. Thorpe, Macmillan's new biographer, evokes the memory of 'Supermac'. |
Susan Walters Schmid puts a new study into historiographical context. |
There is lots of fun in this latest round up of recent historical novels, with derring-do, cross-dressing, biblical plagues and Renaissance geniuses in the mix.... |
Writing her first historical novel has raised some unexpected challenges for the historian Stella Tillyard. |
In the late 1890s Herbert Hoover, the future 31st President of the United States, took his new bride to Tianjin in north China to pursue his career as a geologist... |
Identifying those who took part in the recent riots in London and other English cities may prove easier than in past disorders, but the recent widespread... |
A class confrontation at the Epsom Derby of 1920. |
Richard Wilkinson argues against the prevailing orthodoxy. |
The Italian Renaissance republics are regarded by many as pioneers of good governance. Yet republican rule often resulted in chaos and it was left to strong... |
Having fled Hitler’s Berlin, Oscar Westreich gained a new identity in Palestine. He eventually joined the British army, whose training of Jewish soldiers proved... |
Adam Hochschild looks at an unlikely pair of siblings whose high profile yet very different approach to the events of the early 20th century reflect a turbulent... |
A charming rural scene in turn of the century Ireland. |
Patrick Williams reveals the courage of Henry VIII's Spanish wife. |
What became of the baby daughter of Henry VIII's widow Katherine Parr and her disgraced fourth husband Thomas Seymour after their deaths? Linda Porter unravels a... |
Thomas Penn examines M.J. Tucker’s article on the court of Henry VII, first published in History Today in 1969. |
A selection of readers' correspondence with the editor, Paul Lay. |
A selection of readers' correspondence with the editor, Paul Lay. |
A selection of readers' correspondence with the editor, Paul Lay. |
A selection of readers' correspondence with the editor, Paul Lay. |
A selection of readers' correspondence with the editor, Paul Lay. |
A selection of readers' correspondence with the editor, Paul Lay. |
A selection of readers' correspondence with the editor, Paul Lay. |
A selection of readers' correspondence with the editor, Paul Lay. |
Chris Corin ressurects the life of a Soviet survivor whose remarkable and significant career deserves to be better known. |
Richard Cavendish provides an overview of the life of the French monarch who was nicknamed 'the Universal Spider'. |
Robert Pearce asks why Louis-Philippe's 'July Monarchy' was overthrown. |
Colin Jones and Emily Richardson reveal a little-known collection of obscene and irreverent 18th-century drawings targetting Madame de Pompadour, the favourite... |
Todd Thompson describes how the relationship between a Christian missionary, nicknamed ‘Anderson of Arabia’, and a Muslim religious leader from the Italian-... |
Mary Queen of Scots left Calais for Scotland on August 14th, 1561, aged 18 years old. |
Robert Pearce has been pleasantly surprised at the quality of a new textbook. |
Despite numerous attempts by radicals to reform the calendar, it is usually commerce that decides the way we measure time, as Matthew Shaw explains. |
Courtly love, celebrated in numerous songs and poems, was the romantic ideal of western Europe in the Middle Ages. Yet, human nature being what it is, the... |
Taylor Downing tells the story of the Central Interpretation Unit at Medmenham, Buckinghamshire, where the RAF’s aerial photo interpreters played a critical role... |
The idea that the German foreign office during the Nazi period was a stronghold of traditional, aristocratic values is no longer tenable according to recent... |
Richard Challoner unearths a letter, written in support of a widow and her children, which is revealing of a humanitarian aspect of Lord Nelson. |
Six years after Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc in New Orleans Thomas Ruys Smith looks at its impact in the light of the city’s historic troubles. |
Patrick Little celebrates the life and career of a major historian of Early Modern Britain. |
Taylor Downing offers a tribute to the military historian who was a television natural. |
Robin Waterfield looks at the influence of the mother of Alexander the Great in the years following her son’s death. |
Graham Goodlad has enjoyed two biographies of towering 19th-century political figures. |
Anthony Fletcher pays tribute to the great historian of English protestantism, who ventured far and wide in the academic world. |
Richard Lansdown introduces Hugh Welch Diamond, one of the fathers of medical photography, whose images of the insane both reflected and challenged prevailing... |
A sea voyage in the 12th century was a perilous undertaking, as a Spanish Muslim courtier’s account of his crossing of the Mediterranean demonstrates. Yet,... |
Almost none of the large outdoor artworks commissioned for the 1951 Festival of Britain has survived. Alan Powers discusses one that did, a mural by John Piper,... |
Pitt the Elder resigned on October 5th, 1761, at the age of 52. |
Patricia Cleveland-Peck looks at the long history of plant dispersal between the New World and the Old. |
Robin Bayley tells how his great grandfather, a Mancunian businessman, became caught up in the tumultuous period of worker unrest that paved the way for the... |
One of the last popes to play a major role in international affairs, Innocent XI defied Louis XIV, the Sun King, and played a decisive part in the defence of... |
Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility was first published in London by Thomas Egerton on October 30th, 1811. |
The Russian prime minister was shot during festivities to mark the centenary of the liberation of Russia's serfs on September 14th, 1911. |
Though their appeal seems bizarre to the modern mind, relics and reliquaries reflected an entirely logical system of belief bound up in the medieval worldview,... |
Inspired by the discovery of the frozen bodies of three soldiers of the First World War, Peter Englund considers the ways we remember and write about a conflict... |
At what point did it begin to matter what you wore? Ulinka Rublack looks at why the Renaissance was a turning point in people’s attitudes to clothes and their... |
Ann Natanson reports on a new scheme to restore the Roman Colosseum to its former gory glory. |
A series of archaeological discoveries off the coast of Sicily reveal how Rome turned a piece of lethal naval technology pioneered by its enemy, Carthage, to its... |
Queen Anne ordered a racecourse to be built on Ascot Heath in 1711. It was officially opened on August 11th. |
As the final preparations are made for the Royal Wedding on Friday April 29th, we explore the history of regal marriages, from Tudor times to the twentieth century... |
As the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton approaches, Jenifer Roberts looks at the series of 18th-century weddings which led the Portuguese royal family... |
Rupert Murdoch’s motives only make sense from a historical perspective, argues Piers Brendon. |
Since its discovery in Yemen in 1972 a collection of brittle documents, believed to be among the earliest Koranic texts, has been the subject of fierce and... |
Anne Ammundsen laments the lack of public access to a revelatory account of a young English officer who crossed swords – and words – with George Washington. |
The historical roots of the dispute between China and Japan over control of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands reveal a great deal about the two countries’ current global... |
Fifty years ago a British film challenged widespread views on homosexuality and helped to change the law. Andrew Roberts looks at the enduring impact of Basil... |
Richard Wilkinson finds much to enjoy in the opening volumes of a comprehensive new series on British social history. |
History is an unending dialogue between past and present. As Jeffrey Richards discusses here, this is as true of historical films as it is about the writing of... |
David Cameron has called India Britain's 'partner of choice' and is anxious to forge stronger trade links with the country. Yet how well do the British understand... |
At its height, the British Empire was the largest the world has ever known. Its history is central to Britain’s history, yet, as Zoë Laidlaw shows, this imperial... |
The Britain that emerged victorious from the Second World War was impoverished, bomb-damaged and ration-weary. The Festival of Britain of 1951 (the year of ... |
Lauren Kassell reveals how the casebooks, diaries and diagrams of the late-16th-century astrologer Simon Forman provide a unique perspective on a period when the... |
In recent years British models have reappeared on the catwalk wearing real fur, though it is unlikely to ever regain the mass appeal it once had. Carol Dyhouse... |
The death of Stalin in 1953 marked a shift in the Soviet Union. Robert Hornsby discusses the underground groups that mushroomed in the aftermath and how the state... |
Russel Tarr compares and contrasts the rise to power of two Communist leaders. |
Robert Service reconsiders Norman Pereira's revisionist account of Stalin's pursuit of power in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, first published in ... |
Syria was among the most unstable states in the Middle East until Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. But, asks James Gelvin, can his son, Bashar, maintain the... |
As Matthew Shaw demonstrates, scandal sold newspapers 200 years ago, just as it does today. |
Christopher B. Krebs considers Irene Coltman Brown’s article on the ambivalent and ironic Roman historian Tacitus, first published in History Today in... |
Carl Peter Watts estimates the importance of the different reasons for British withdrawal. |
Richard Cavendish describes the Battle of Albuera, on May 16th, 1811. |
Throughout its 350-year history the British army has been vulnerable to economic pressures and political interference. Its strength lies in the loyalty of its... |
David Kynaston seeks answers to questions about the fragile future of an institution beloved by historical researchers. |
The desire of western governments, most notably those of Britain, to apologise for the actions of their predecessors threatens to simplify the complexities of... |
It is a deeply unfashionable thing to ask, says Tim Stanley, but might a nation's history be affected by the character of its people? |
History tells us that the West’s embrace of liberal values was not inevitable and is unlikely to last, says Tim Stanley. |
The academic training that historians undergo qualifies them to speak out on issues beyond their remit, argues Tim Stanley. |
The American Civil War was not a simple struggle between slaveholders and abolitionists, argues Tim Stanley. |
It is the responsibility of parents and politicians to define and pass on a nation's values and identity, argues Tim Stanley. Historians and teachers of history... |
Much western commentary on the turmoil in the Arab world demonstrates historical ignorance, argues Tim Stanley. |
The Victorian era was an age of faith – which is why it was also a golden period of progress, argues Tim Stanley. |
George III was crowned on September 22nd, 1761, aged 22. One of the longest reigns in English history was under way. |
Richard Cavendish explains how Hiram Binham discovered the 'lost city of the Incas'. |
The Duke of Marlborough was dismissed from the office of captain-general on December 31st 1711. |
The English diet has been mythologised as one of roasted meats and few vegetables but, as Anita Guerrini concludes from a survey of early modern writings on the... |
The 264 inhabitants of the island of Tristan da Cunha were evacuated to Cape Town on October 10th, 1961. |
A mid-Victorian competition to design new Government Offices in Whitehall fell victim to a battle between the competing styles of Gothic and Classical. The result... |
The Hindenburg disaster marked the beginning of the end for airship travel. Yet what is often forgotten today is that, until the 1930s, airships were a... |
We like to think of ourselves as having made progress from those repressed Victorians. However, since the 1970s, feminists, gay activists and historians have been... |
In our series in which historians look back on the changes that have taken place in their field in the 60 years since the founding of History Today,... |
The great trading companies that originated in early modern Europe are often seen as pioneers of western imperialism. The Levant Company was different, argues... |
Richard Cavendish describes the maiden voyage of the Queen Mary on May 27th, 1936. |
The theft of the most famous painting in the world on August 21st, 1911, created a media sensation. |
Seventy-five years on, the Battle of Cable Street still holds a proud place in anti-fascist memory, considered a decisive victory against the far right. In fact,... |
The story of a country that has long punched above its weight is told in Scotland’s refurbished National Museum, says David Forsyth. |
Alfred Nobel’s Peace Prize has become something other than its founder intended, claims Fredrik S. Heffermehl. |
By reinterpreting the years before 1914 William Mulligan sees the 'July Crisis' in a fresh perspective. |
Richard Cavendish charts the events leading up to the Mexican dictator, Porfirio Diaz's, fall from power in 1911. |
While industrialists in Manchester were busily engaged in developing the factory system, investors in London were applying its principles to the capital’s old pubs... |
Sean Cunningham welcomes a recent re-issue. |
Stauss' 'musical comedy' was first performed in Dresden on January 26th, 1911. It was a sensation. |
Enter our crossword and win an audiobook of Marie Antoinette, by Antonia Fraser. |
George Garnett reflects on the Julia Wood Prize and on the state of sixth-form history. |
George Augustus Frederick was appointed Prince Regent to his father King George III on February 5th, 1811. He was a heavy drinker and a compulsive gambler.... |
Robert Pearce asks whether Britain benefited from the 1853-56 contest. |
Since the end of the Cold War there has been a marked increase in accounts of the past made by those considered to have been on the ‘losing side’ of history. But... |
Janina Ramirez, presenter of a new BBC documentary on Iceland and its literature, explores the country’s sagas, their wide-ranging legacy and what they tell us... |
The first performance of The Tempest on record was at court on All Hallows’ Day, on November 1st 1611. |
The trade in human organs has given rise to many myths. We should look to its history, argues Richard Sugg, if we are to comprehend its reality. |
William Beckford was the model of an 18th-century progressive and aesthete. But the wealth that allowed him to live such a lifestyle came from the slaves he... |
Richard Bosworth looks at the Vittoriano, the Italian capital’s century-old monument to Victor Emmanuel II and Italian unification and still the focus of competing... |
The ‘biggest, bloodiest and longest battle on English soil’ was fought at Towton in Yorkshire on Palm Sunday 1461. Its brutality was a consequence of deep... |
Dunia Garcia Ontiveros charts the little-known history of the Sami population and the life of Knud Leem, the first person to study their language and culture.... |
An insight into the London Library's remarkable collection of early English versions of the Bible, at the heart of which is a copy of the King James Bible of 1611... |
After he was formally condemned to death in Moscow, the Mexican government offered Trotsky refuge and protection, on December 6th 1936. |
Mark Rathbone assesses the importance of the office of 'Veep' (VP) over the past 220 years. |
The Aeneid, Virgil’s epic Latin poem, offers as profound an insight into the current Libyan crisis as any 24-hour news channel, argues Robert Zaretsky... |
On the centenary of the death of W.S.Gilbert Ian Bradley examines the achievements of the surprisingly radical Victorian dramatist and librettist who, in... |
A political exile, Richard Wagner found safety in Zurich, where he also discovered the love and philosophy that inspired his greatest works, as Paul Doolan... |
Jez Ross corrects misunderstandings about the origins and significance of disturbances in 1549. |
The conquest of Java, now part of Indonesia, is one of the least known episodes of British imperialism. But this short interregnum influenced the governance of the... |
Michael Bentley looks at the father of British historiography who was an eloquent and controversial opponent of teleology. |
Paul Lay responds to the controversy around David Starkey's Newsnight appearance and explains how history 'helps one develop a thick skin'. |
Adam I.P. Smith reviews a work by Amanda Foreman. |
Lara Feigel reviews Grace Brockington's re-evaluation of the British modernist and peace movements during the First World War. |
Nick Poyntz reviews Adam Smyth's account of autobiography in early modern England. |
Diana Souhami reviews Kathleen Winters' biography of Amelia Earhart. |
Chris Wrigley reviews Jane Humphries study of child labour, the family and the world of work in the century from 1750. |
Edward Royle reviews a biography of Charles Bradlaugh. |
John Morrill reviews Andrew Barclay's account of Cromwell's election as MP for Cambridge in 1640. |
Juliet Gardiner reviews Audrey Linkman's study of death photographs. |
Juliet Gardiner reviews this illustrated history of London in the 1920s. |
Ian Bradley books which consider the historical context and background of the work of Gilbert and Sullivan. |
Nigel Jones reviews a fascinating if flawed account of Hitler's years in the German army between 1914 and 1920. |
E.L. Devlin reviews a book on the history of Medieval Europe. |
Mark Kishlansky reviews this study of the survival and revival of the House of Lords in the period from 1660 to 1714. |
Judith Brown reviews Patrick French's portrait of modern India. |
Nick Liptrot reviews Richard Pells' survey of the American Modernist movement. |
Archie Brown reviews three titles on the Cold War. |
Vyvyen Brendon reviews F.R.H. Du Boulay's account of his family's history in India. |
Anna Sanderson reviews three accounts of imperial history from the point of view of the colonists. |
Adrian Tinniswood on a new biography of Sir Walter Raleigh: "a great Elizabethan, diminished by his lying, his self-regard, his pride". |
Hugh Stephenson reviews David Cordingly's account of the 'golden age' of piracy in the Caribbean. |
William S. McFeely reviews Eric Foner's account of Abraham Lincoln's position on slavery. |
Ian Burney reviews Judith Flanders' study of murder in Victorian Britain. |
Anthony Bale reviews a fascinating book on the Jewish experience in medieval England. |
Rosie Llewellyn Jones reviews Bobby Singh's history of the Europeans who lived at the Lahore court of Ranjit Singh in the nineteenth century. |
John Foot reviews two books on Italian history. |
Kate Williams reviews two books about the men who served both under Wellington during the Peninsular Wars and under Simon Bolivar in his fight to liberate Gran... |
David Waller reviews Claire Tomalin's new biography of Charles Dickens. |
Nick Poyntz reviews Jonathan Green's history of how crime has been described over the past five centuries. |
Jonathan Keates reviews Paul Stathern's account of a particularly bizarre moment in Renaissance history. |
Jeffrey Richards discusses the recent historical blockbuster. |
David Waller reviews Fiona MacCarthy's biography of Edward Burne-Jones. |
Patrick Porter reviews Zara Steiner's 'superbly wrought history' of the pre-Second World War decade. |
Jeffrey Richards reviews Bettina Bildhauer's study of medieval-themed cinema. |
Jeremy Black reviews Charles H. Parker's account of trade, migration, disease and religion in the early modern age. |
Sheila Rowbotham reviews a collection of essays by Eric Hobsbawm. |
Bernard Porter reviews Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon's account of the violence that accompanied Britain's decolonisation after the Second World War. |
Edith Hall reviews David Mattingly's study of Roman imperialism. |
Paul Lay interviews Michael wood, author of The Story of England, a narrative of 2,000 years in the lfie of an 'utterly ordinary' English village. |
Rachel Hewitt, author of Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey, discusses her work with Paul Lay. |
An interview with Roger Moorhouse, the author of Berlin at War, the second recommended title in the History Today Book Club. |
Paul Lay talks to the author of Jerusalem: The Biography, the History Today Book Club title for November. The two will be in conversation at the... |
Paul Lay talks to Thomas Weber about his groundbreaking study, Hitler's First War. |
Denis Judd on an entertaining and frequently revealing new biography of Chamberlain. |
Nigel Saul reviews Edmund King's account of the civil war during King Stephen's reign. |
Rohan McWilliam reviews Jacqueline Yallop's study of the way the obsession of collecting things shaped 19th-century Britain. |
Matthew Sweet reviews Rodney Bolt's biography of Mary Benson. |
Penny Summerfield reviews Virginia Nicholson's latest book which explores the experiences of women during and after the Second World War. |
Richard Bosworth reviews David Stafford's 'official history' of SOE action during the Italian campaign. |
How true is Deborah Lutz's claim that the Swinging Sixties really began in the 1860s? |
Richard Serjeantson reviews Gregory Claeys' history of utopia. |
Deborah Cohen reviews Francesca Beauman's history of the Lonely Hearts ad. |
David Cesarani reviews Tom Segev’s biography of the man who was credited with bringing hundreds of Nazi war criminals to justice and Bob Moore's study of Jewish... |
A surprising number of Archibishops of Canterbury have met a violent end. Christopher Winn looks at some of the more notorious examples. |
Jerome de Groot, Linda Porter, David Waller, Gary Sheffield and Ted Vallance share their holiday reading choices. |
Which books are Britain’s top historians packing in their suitcases to read on the beach? |
Continuing our summer reading special, Helen Rappaport, Richard Weight, Malcolm Gaskill, Owen Dudley Edwards and Joyce Tyldesley share their holiday choices.... |
In the second part of our summer reading special, Nick Poyntz, Tom Holland, Chris Wrigley, Alan Powers and Lucy Worsley share their holiday reading choices. |
Mary Laven reviews Helen Berry's account of the clandestine union between Dorothea Maunsell and the castrato Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci. |
Roland Quinault reviews Peter Marsh's account of the Chamberlain family. |
Roger Moorhouse reviews Daniel Blatman's study of the 'death marches' at the end of the Second World War. |
Nigel Saul reviews John Goodall's account of castle history. |
Art historian Jonathan Black has collected Eric Kennington's wartime portraits in this book about 'heroes and heroines'. |
Martin Evans looks at a new book that covers the heyday of the French Foreign Legion. |
The Great War and the Making of the Modern World and With Our Backs To The Wall : two books on the First World War which 'will be tough acts to... |
As our 60th anniversary year nears its conclusion we asked distinguished historians to choose their favourite works of history produced in the last 60 years and to... |
This month's quiz includes questions on the Iron Curtain, the Spanish Civil War, and pirates in the Caribbean |
David Priestland reviews Lenoe's account of the assassination of Sergei Kirov in 1934. |
Richard Weight reviews Peter Catterall's edited volume of Macmillan's diaries. |
Rosie Atkins reviews Margaret Willes' 'welcome insight into an often neglected period of garden history'. |
Nigel Saul reviews 'one of the masterpieces of historical writing of our time'. |
Juliet Gardiner reviews Michael Wallis' illustrated history of the Wild West. |
Jacqueline Riding reviews Stella Tillyard's work of historical fiction set within the period of the Regency and the Peninsular War. |
Hannah Greig reviews the first book-length study of London's Vauxhall Gardens for over 55 years. |
Kathryn Hadley explores the website of the Mumbai Ghandi Museum and Research Centre. |
Taylor Downing reviews Harbutt's account of the Yalta Conference of February 1945. |
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