The History Today Archive
With over 13,000 articles, our archive is one of the most comprehensive sources of history writing online. The archive contains everything published since 1980; we are currently digitising the 1951-1979 portion and adding them to the site -- we aim to complete this by the end of 2013.
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Archive highlights for this month
A selection of additional reading for the December issue of History Today
 In 1969 men set foot on the Moon for the first time. The Apollo space programme that put them there was the product of an age of optimism and daring very different from our own, argues André Balogh. |
 Felipe Fernandez-Armesto weighs up the case for and against the Genovese explorer, finding a Columbus for all seasons. |
 J.K. Elliott describes how many diverse elements are woven into the traditional account of the Nativity; but ‘the inspiration that the story has given to countless believers... speaks for its effectiveness.’ |
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A small, far-away country, but one whose tangled relations with its neighbours, Ian Armour suggests, lead inexorably to the debacle of 1914. |
 Terence Zuber argues that the German army’s rigid plan for a quick victory in France in 1914 was a postwar fabrication. |
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