 Napoleon on Elba, 1814Two hundred years ago this month, the Treaty of Fontainebleau saw Napoleon exiled to Elba. Why was he treated so lightly? |
 Johnson and Boswell at the Pleasure Dome of Kublai KhanThe time-travelling pair continue their adventure with a visit to Shangdu. |
 In the May issue of History TodayThe last days of India's first prime minister, travels with the King of Siam and how the Scots invented Britishness. |
 The History Today Quiz: April 2014This month's quiz features questions on the Crimean War, the first European in New Zealand and the Suez Canal. |
 Twilight of the History Gods: Jacques Le Goff, 1924-2014Does the death of French medievalist Jacques Le Goff mark the end of an era in historical scholarship, asks Alexander Lee. |
 Alternative Histories: Cnut the GreatThe ancient king tries a more modern approach to stopping the waves. |
 Thousands of Historic Maps Released by New York Public LibraryThe New York Public Library has released over 20,000 maps and cartographic works into the public domain under a Creative Commons licence. |
 In Pictures: Victims of the Black Death in LondonImages of the 14th-century skeletons discovered beneath the streets of the capital. |
 The Vendôme Column, 1871Roger Hudson describes the destruction during the Paris Commune of the memorial to Napoleon’s victory at Austerlitz in 1805. |
 Through the Cracks of OblivionWithout dexterity and imagination historians are in danger of overlooking the telling details that complete the bigger picture, argues Mathew Lyons. |
 Commemorating ClontarfOne of the bloodiest and most decisive battles in Irish history took place a thousand years ago this month. |
 Constructing ModernismAndrew Higgott surveys the contested legacy of modern architecture in Britain from the first machine age to the dawn of the digital. |
 Nehru: Death of a DemocratJawaharlal Nehru died 50 years ago this month. Gyanesh Kudaisya describes the final years of India’s founding prime minister, a period marked by major challenges at home as well as abroad in the aftermath of the 1962 war with China. |
Book Reviews
 Art and the Second World WarHow far did artists in the Second World War support the war effort of their respective nations and perhaps become a propaganda arm of those fighting it – and did the quality of their art necessarily suffer as a result? |
 Tocqueville: The Aristocratic Sources of LibertyHugh Brogan is unimpressed by a poorly written book whose tedious prose 'insults the memory of Tocqueville'. |
 Arthur Phillip: Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, SpyA biography of 'the English Enlightenment hero that England has never been enlightened enough to honour'. |
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May 2014
In this month's issue: Nehru's Final Years - Asquith At War - Industrial Revolution - History After Hobsbawm - Constructing Modernism - Churchill and Hitler
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