Volume: 62 Issue: 3
Contents of History Today, March 2012 |
The 19th-century view from Albion of the shortcomings of the US Constitution was remarkably astute, says Frank Prochaska. |
Jonathan Downs reports on the fire last December that caused extensive damage to one of Egypt’s most important collections of historical manuscripts. |
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... |
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 ... |
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.... |
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... |
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... |
Ivan became Grand Prince on March 27th 1462, following the death of his father. |
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... |
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... |
A selection of readers' correspondence with the editor, Paul Lay. |
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... |
Constructing the Victoria Embankment on the north bank of the River Thames in London: an image analysed by Roger Hudson. |
The Flemish cartographer was born on March 5th, 1512. |
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... |
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... |
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’... |
Enter our crossword competition and win an audiobook of the King James Bible. |
Two new books show that 16th-century history is about more than Henry VIII. |
Jeremy Paxman's book on Britain's imperial story is an idiosyncratic, droll but ultimately useful introduction to the subject. |
A new book tackles some of the myths around the Gallipoli campaign, while a set of memoirs offers a contemporary account. |
How did a quintessential German scholar become an anglicised architectural pundit, broadcaster and national treasure? |
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