1984

Philip Mansel on the dress codes of the English Court.

Mildred Budny gauges the scale and achievement of 11th-century art.

Throughout Europe, the end of the First World War brought in its wake disillusion, civil unrest and even revolution. As Daniel Francis explains here, it was the...

In 1926 the mining dispute led to the General Strike. Chris Wrigley writes how the memory of the hardship of those months has left a permanent legacy of bitterness...

Edited by Roy Douglas

Anthony Wright looks at the impact on socialism and society in the last 100 years of Fabianism.

ed. Nigel Smith

by R. J. Unstead

Francis Robinson reviews a book by Elias N. Saad.

A brief look at the Cabinet War Rooms underneath Whitehall.

by Robert Rhodes James

by Gwyn Macfarlane

by Henri Troyat

Irene Coltman Brown focusses on a staunch 17th-century republican prepared to die for his beliefs.

Breaking away from the limited perspectives of American history long prevalent in Britain, Alistair Hennessy contributes to a clearer understanding of historical...

'America has not come to terms with its own history ... and regards Latin American nationalism as a conspiracy against its inevitable and popular domination of the...

David Kiyaga-Mulindwa looks in to Southern Africa's early history.

by Robert O. Crummey

The use of guns by the police is a continuing debate in British society - as it was in Victorian times.

Recent events have provoked disquiet about the concept of diplomatic immunity: in the early eighteenth century, the British government was considerably less...

by Ronnie Butler

by Jonathan Schneer

'The Genius of Venice' at the Royal Academy, Winter 1983/4

by Gwynne Lewis and Colin Lucas; Robert Gildea; Maurice Agulhon.

by Peter Warwick

Ronald Hutton on erotica and morality through history

by Sheila Lawlor

by Bemard Porter

by F.H. Hinsley, E.E. Thomas, C.F.G. Ransom and R.C. Knight

The European images of Argentina are complex, and mirror profound debates about nationalism and universalism, popular and elite culture.

by R.W. Harris

by Raymond Aron

David Low, the cartoonist, met Horatio Blimp, a retired Colonel, in a Turkish bath near Charing Cross in the early 1930s. Many agree with C.S. Lewis that Colonel...

by Ben Fowkes

by Julius R. Ruff

For the past 600 years the island of Java has been the scene for the encounter of the two major cultural and religious traditions of the world.

The Civil War Battles of General George Armstrong Custer

Caroline Reed looks at the propaganda campaigns accompanying the D-Day landings on June 6th, 1944.

Gabriel Ronay traces the story of the 'forgotten' rightful heir to the throne of England – who could, perhaps, have saved Anglo-Saxon England from a Norman...

Edited by Sarah Tyacke

by Alan Bullock

Linda Pollock looks at a collection of works on the family and the home.

Roger Lockyer makes a plea for a greater emphasis on the study of the history of our culture.

Paul Cartledge argues ancient history should be brought in from the cold.

Peter Stansky encourages the link between the past and present in history.

Bernard Porter suggests that this is fast becoming the age of the spurious historical parallel.

Roderick Floud puts the case for the Retention of Personal Records

Arthur Marwick teaches some history lessons from the Open University.

Stephen Koss questions whether the press has ever truly mirrored public opinion

Paul Dukes urges the need to widen our vision of the past by adopting the perspective of world history.

Anthony Sutcliffe preaches a new historical positivism

In the world today, a nation's financial collapse can threaten its political and social stability. It was the same in France in 1789, explains Peter Burley.

by John F.V. Keiger

Robert Thorne on London's architects and their work.

John Campbell on the curious case of F.E. Smith and the 'black diaries' of Sir Roger Casement

Frouke Wieringa considers the life of a great prince in the sixteenth century and the fluctuations in his fortunes during the Dutch Revolt

John Burrows presents this month's Today's History feature to coincide with the birth of N.F.S. Grundtvig, the Danish political reformer and father of further...

by Barbara Jelavich

Geoffrey Pearson believes the answer to modern violence and aggression lies in an assessment of hooliganism in the past.

Anthony McFarlane looks back to a time when freedom and independence were a common aspiration among American peoples.

Alan Heesom discusses 19th-century politics either side of the Irish Sea.

John Whittam reviews a new book by Harry Hearder.

The ability of Jinnah to unite a series of political expediencies with the popular appeal of Islam to demand a separate state for the Muslim people, has brought...

by Robert Skidelsky

Jorvik, the Viking-age predecessor of modern York, has in recent years, been revealed by archaeologists in astonishing detail. A new underground Viking centre in the...

by E. Bradford

Robert Poole examines the continuity over centuries of a tradition in northern England.

by David Englander

Walter Minchinton discusses the rise of buildings used for ammunition manufacture.

John Erickson assesses the massive Soviet assault into Germany in the final year of the war and the price of liberation.

David Dutton explores the twilight years of the British statesman following the 1906 General Election.

Stephen Trombley on the study of language and ancient texts.

The Early Modern Period

by Russell Chamberlain

by Muriel E. Chamberlain

by Norman Gash

James Dormon continues our America and the Americas series with a look at the growth of a group of 17th-century settlers in Nova Scotia.

Listening to the words of lullabies mothers have sung to their babies over the centuries can give the historian an insight into the constancy - and expression - of...

Dorothy Sherindan, the Archivist of Mass-Observation at the University of Sussex, traces its development - and revival in the 1980s.

'Compare the wealth and refinement of cities such as Mexico... in the middle of the eighteenth century, with the austere simplicity, verging on poverty, of......

Montgomery had five months to mastermind the Allied D-Day landings - and give the troops faith in their battle.

by Lou Taylor

The Duke of Wellington proved a gift to the cartoonists of 'Punch' - he was a figure the magazine's readership would recognise, and he did not look unlike Mr Punch...

The murder of young Edmund de Pashley uncovered a family feud that illuminates the realities of late-medieval crime.

by Owen Chadwick

Mildred Budny provides some observations on the Bayeux Tapestry

Kathleen Burk discusses the publishing of history books.

Review by Patrick Collinson

by Clive Emsley

In the 1920s and 30s the wireless transformed British politics - particularly at elections - as vote-seeking politicians had to adapt their style to the demands of a...

by Robert Eben Sackett

by Rosalind and Christopher Brooke

Ian Roy reviews new Civil War historiography.

Rosemary Day reviews.

Geoffrey Parker looks at the Decline of Spain.

David Harvey explores the most influential titles on women in Ancient Greece.

Peter Burke examines various reassessments of the Italian Renaissance.

David Reynolds looks at the publications charting the American Isolationist policy since 1776.

Simon Keynes examines the variety of books on Anglo-Saxon rulers.

John A. Davis discusses a range of books tackling the Risorgimento.

Ralph Smith assesses the material available on the conflict in South-East Asia.

edited by John Ramsden

edited by Paul Slack

Geoffrey Parker travels to Germany to revisit the sites of the 17th-century conflict that saw the decline of the Holy Roman Empire and Habsburgs.

Andrew Pettegree reviews a new book on the Reformation.

Douglas Johnson on a French village’s attempts to honour its local history.

Ivan Roots reviews a book on the Reformation and the social change it provoked.

Peter Burke reviews a book on Renaissance-era Rome.

Geoffrey Parker reviews two books on the culture of war.

Rosemary Day considers Oxford and Cambridge in the Tudor and Stewart age

Edward Acton reviews a book on Russia and the First World War.

In the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 there was a battle for the mind of the new Soviet man with artists and intellectuals engaged in the struggle...

by Charles Cruickshank

Michael Hunter discusses works uncovering a period of scientific revolution.

Jenny Wormald introduces a series of ten articles on Scottish history.

James Kirk reviews.

by Terry M. Parssinen

by Richard Cobb; Alan J. Megahey

by Paul Kennedy

by D. Cameron Watt

John D. Hargreaves looks at the 1884 meeting of European nations and the impact on Africa.

Edited with an introduction by David Fraser

by Stephen and Elizabeth Usherwood

Roderick Lyall on the royal household of a medieval Scottish monarch

edited by Liz Stanley

by Maurice Cranston

John Morril reviews a book by Christopher Hill.

by George Grosz

A collection of works on 18th- and 19th-century France

Simon Adams reviews a book by Carolly Erickson.

V.H. Rothwell reviews a book on Anglo-Soviet relations during WWII.

In the Paris of the 1730s a group of printing apprentices tortured and ritually killed all the cats they could find – including the pet of their master’s wife. Why...

by Simon Hornblower

edited by B.D. Henning

by E.R. Foster

Jenny Wormald reassesses the dynasty of the Scottish monarchs and their historical importance.

Gertrude Himmelfarb considers why and when poverty ceased to be a 'natural' condition and become a 'social' problem in the Early Industrial Age.

by Marc Bouloiseau

Edited by Dr John F. West

Norman Macdougall explores the vicissitudes of James IV's reign; although regarded as a paragon amongst Scottish kings, his downfall owed much to his failings....

F.J. McLynn reviews a new book on the Stuarts.

by lain McLean

John Grigg questions whether D-Day could have taken place earlier and, instead, did it drag out the course of the war?

Robin Seager reviews a book on Roman military.

Ronald Hutton reviews a book by Barbara W. Tuchman.

by M. E. Mallett and J. R. Hale

Ian S. Wood assesses the desire in Britain for a Second Front and how far the nation drifted to the political left.

by Umberto Eco

Roy Porter reviews a book by Stefan Collini, Donald Winch and John Burrow

edited by Kenneth O. Morgan

Michael Houlihan claims the Allies could have used Resistance to better effect before and after D-Day.

by J.M. Bumsted

by Michael Charlton

F.M.L. Thompson reviews two books on Victorian Britain.

Jenny Wormald reviews

The activities and success of the Resistance movement in France from 1940-1944 is examined by Roderick Kedward.

Slavery would seem to be the epitome of domination by an all-powerful master over a passive, subservient dependent. But is this the whole picture, wonders Gad Heuman...

by Natalie Zemon Davis

by Stephen Koss

by John Erickson

Geoffrey Warner looks at the reasons for the delay in opening a second Allied Front.

Martin Henig reviews a book on the Romans.

Edited by Istvan Hont and Michael Ignatieff

by Barry Coward

Oman is frequently in the news at the moment - reflecting Britain’s crucial role in the reconstruction of this ancient Empire.

Edited by H.T. Sibome

by Antonia Fraser / Sylvia Freedman

by Shirley Sherwood

by Geoffrey Symcox

David Cannadine on the changing nature of British history in the US

Brian Manning continues the study of the tumultuous period leading to the English Civil War.

The first of three distinguished historians at the centre of current debates, John Morrill offers his own personal conviction about the nature of the greatest of all...

David Underdown looks back to the Tudor age in discussing the upheavals of the mid-17th century.

John Gould argues for the return of national treasures ... while Malcolm McLeod expresses reservations ...

Conrad Russell finds that it is easier to understand why sheer frustration may have driven Charles to fight than to understand why the English gentry might have...

Juliet Gardiner introduces a series of articles commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of the count of Nassau who led the rebellion of the Netherlands.

John Campbell reviews a book by Piers Brendon

Annmarie Turnbull reviews three books on women's history.

Julia Phillips charts the history of women in British society.