1991
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William Sessions on the connections of the charismatic courtier-poet who in a short and ill-fated life bridged the aristocratic Renaissance cultures of the... |
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Stuart Andrews considers the life and radical milieu of the dissenting preacher whose support first for the American and then the French Revolutions brought him... |
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Judy Litoff and David C. Smith sift through the hopes and fears of America's home front in this selection and commentary of letters they have assembled from wives... |
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Mark Clapson looks at how Victorian morality drove the pleasures of betting underground, and relates the various devices that enabled the working-classes to sustain... |
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A new work on the ancient Central American civilisation |
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Three new publications on medical history |
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Eva Haraszti Taylor reviews |
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Three new publications exploring South African history |
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by Alister McGrath |
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Annette Bingham on the discovery of a complex military defence system on Crete |
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Damien Gregory reports on protests surrounding the explorer's quincentenary celebrations. |
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John MacKenzie argues there is life yet in Marxist analysis if not in its practice then for examining the process of imperial rule and its transformation. |
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Maria Dowling considers the contribution of Henry VIII's queens in promoting new learning and religion at the Tudor court. |
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Paul Preston reviews a new work on the Holocaust, the Nazis and their wartime Allies |
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Timothy Jacobson with a plea for America's 'history for all'. |
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Hugh Purcell examines the impact on either side of the Atlantic of Ken Burns’s tour de force, The Civil War. |
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Our boys over there? Mark Ellis looks at how America's black newspapers and population reacted to US involvement in the First World War and at the steps the... |
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Robin Blackburn describes how the message of liberte, egalite, fraternite, acted as crucial catalyst for race and class uprisings in Europe's Caribbean colonies.... |
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Two recent biographies about senior figures in the Labour Party |
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by J.R. Hale |
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Geoffrey Clarke on netting the Poll Tax in Hastings. |
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Elizabethans in the Arctic |
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Arthur Marwick takes a sweeping look at the society and culture into which History Today was born. |
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by H. M. Scott |
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Ann Hills on highland games at Braemar |
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Penelope Johnston describes China's revered North American hero |
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Allan Mallinson tells how the cavalry in the British Army recovered from a Boer War shambles to become the best in Europe by the outbreak of the First World War. |
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Two new books on great scientists |
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Richard Cavendish looks at all things Stuart in the month when Charles I lost his head. |
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Jeremy Black takes a fresh look at the career and reputation of the 'great outsider' of Hanoverian Britain. |
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Essays In Honour Of Asa Briggs; and Industrial England and Class |
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J.F.C. Harrison reviews |
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Asa Briggs reviews |
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During the Pacific War Japanese attempts to crack battlefront communications were frustrated by a dedicated band of native Americans stationed with the Marine Corps... |
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Books on the early modern period |
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Ian W. Archer reviews two new publications on the Tudors and Stuarts |
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Babbage’s Difference Engine and the mechanical pre-history of computing. |
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A biography of the French leader by Jean Lacouture |
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David Starkey provides an introduction to the remarkable ruler born 500 years ago, whose anniversary the Greenwich exhibition is marking, and places his... |
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The 18th- and 19th-century relationship between the USA and Russia |
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Two new books on the Middle Ages |
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This special issue of History Today, marking forty years of publication of the magazine, is an attempt to reflect as many facets of its character and appeal as it is... |
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Two new books on modern Spain |
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Tony Aldous examines the tensions over digging and conserving in historic town centres such as Lincoln. |
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Martin Evans has tracked down and interviewed many of those who helped the Algerian FLN - and outlines here the links between the experience of resistance to the... |
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Two new books on the ancient world |
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Hugh Dunthorne on how bowls, billiards, skating and other pastimes shed light on the society and culture of the Dutch Golden Age. |
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Until the late 18th century, few criminal defendants thought it worthwhile to engage a lawyer on their behalf; but in the 1780s things suddenly changed. John Beattie... |
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Keith Nurse reveals news of Anglo-Saxon jewellery find in Suffolk. |
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A recent biography of the American army chief |
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The production of gin was actively encouraged in Britain during the Restoration period, but its increasing grip on the London poor had disastrous effects for the... |
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John Roberts finds nationalism a better bet than the idylls of Marx for the longue duree of historical understanding. |
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Roger Knight looks at the National Maritime Museum's acquistion of the papers of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich. |
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David Birmingham draws on the private papers of an 18th-century Swiss cheese farmer to recreate a world whose business sophistication and economic arrangements cut... |
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Rehabilitating the European dynasty |
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New books on two of the major war leaders of modern British history |
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David Lowenthal looks at how landscape has shaped and reflects the English view of themselves. |
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by R.W. Johnson |
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A review of a new biography on the feared Nazi leader |
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Christopher Abel on the often dangerous work of academics in Colombia |
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David Chandler enters a plea for a more sensitive treatment for Europe’s great battlefields. |
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Kate Lowe on Hong Kong's forgotten anniversary. |
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Felicity Heal reviews |
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Edward Acton looks to the Tsarist ancien regime of the 19th century to set the scene for a historical understanding of Russia that does not throw out the baby with... |
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The Lime Centre in Hampshire and its practical training in the use of lime. |
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Columbus braved superstition and ignorance by sailing across the Atlantic when his contemporaries thought he would fall off the edge. So runs the legend, but... |
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Keith Nurse describes important Iron Age finds in Norfolk on display at the British Museum |
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Akbar Ahmed offers the most timely review of how history and stereotype have often combined to make Western Orientalism a hindrance rather than a help in mutual... |
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Professor Charles Boxer looks at a fascinating East-West encounter where science and mathematics were trailed as tempters for a Chinese gospel. |
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Bovver boys in Athens and Rome? Apparently so, according to Robert Garland, who uncovers tales from life and legend to show how high jinks could turn to blows in... |
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A new book by Jerzy Lukowski on Poland in the 18th century |
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John Morrill reviews new English Civil War historiography. |
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The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the central forces moulding the development of the vast tracts of land that today are Canada - but as Barry Gough explains here... |
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Two new works exploring 16th-century Spain and French women in the next century |
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by Heiko Oberman. |
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Robert Thorne on monumental records on the move. |
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Anne Hills on shutting up shop at Spitalfields. |
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Stephen Rigby argues that Marxist analysis has had an underrated role in the social and economic interpretation of the medieval world. |
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Hugh David discusses, amongst other topics in the media, the assassination of JFK. |
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Hugh David on class and other histories. |
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Hugh David questions the influence of television series over books. |
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Catherine Andreyev reviews books by Andrei Sakharov and Vladimir Pozner |
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A book review by Norman Hammond. |
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Two books on London rail transport |
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Janet Hartley discusses the mixed responses of Russia's populations to Napoleon's great gamble on an invasion and the part they played in the eventual French... |
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Two new works on French political history. |
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by Sheridan Gilley |
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by David Kirby |
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Leah Leneman tells the little-known story of the role played by Scottish men, in the campaign to get women the vote in the years before the First World War. |
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Peter Marshall considers the past impact and present influence of Marxist models to the history of Europe's encounters with other continents. |
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The king on the move - Simon Thurley discusses the style and range of palaces and great houses Henry VIII had available to house him and his peripatetic court. |
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17th century history and literature |
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19th and 20th century Germany |
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The current paperbacks exploring Islamic history |
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War in the 20th century The Commonwealth Armies: Manpower and Organisation in Two World Wars F.W. Perry - MUP, £12.95 The Politics of Manpower, 1914-1918 Keith... |
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Jackie Latham compares Victorian and current school inspection theories for history and other subjects |
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Annette Bingham explores Bronze Age grazing in the Peak District |
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Richard Vinen compares and contrasts the corner shop visions of British Thatcherism and French Poujadism. |
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The first modern constitution in Europe? On the occasion of its bicentenary, Robert Frost looks at the background to a landmark in Polish history which, though it... |
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Brian Bond reviews |
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James Driver gains an insight into current food controversies from the Victorians. |
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Three new publications on 17th-century England |
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Richard Cavendish on the 60th anniversary of the National Trust for Scotland. |
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Barbara Donagan discusses the variable treatment of captives by captors between Crown and Parliament and what light it sheds on the manners and mores of the times... |
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Ann Hughes continues our articles on the Civil War period by investigating the controversies in public debate and the printed word that fuelled religious arguments... |
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Marjorie Morgan discovers the origins of the image-making of modern marketeers and admen in the upwardly mobile world of 19th-century English society. |
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Kenneth Andrews reviews both studies |
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Henry VIII spent astronomical amounts on military fortifications from the Scottish border to the South Coast of England. Marcus Merriman discusses the locations... |
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Ragnhild Hatton on her memories - and the perspective of other historians - on Wartime Norway. |
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Crispin Robinson reviews a book on Renaissance-era art. |
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Andrew Boyd tells the story of the ill-fated mission of a papal nuncio whose blundering zeal doomed the hopes of Irish Catholics of profiting from the civil war... |
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Two new publications on the Roman Empire in Europe |
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by R.W. Southern |
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Colin Michie rings the bell at an early English hospital |
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Tim Blanning reviews |
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by T.C. Smout and Sydney Wood |
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Anthony Seldon considers when and why history ends and current affairs begin. |
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John Crossland compares the investigative approach of historians and journalists. |
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Must the historians be morally neutral on the subject he or she investigates? Michael Burleigh offers a personal view. |
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Julia Simpson on a new museum celebrating the clog shoe |
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by Lindsey Hughes |
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Robert Service looks at how Gorbachev's revolution has left an open agenda for Soviet historians. |
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Akbar Ahmed looks at the legacy of a Moorish past for the present Spain. |
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A selection of the new armchair and active opportunities for those of our readers keen on combining history and travel. |
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by Emma Mason |
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Rosemary Laurent discovers a British outpost in the south Atlantic. |
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Lions led by donkeys? Britain's most traumatic land offensive of the First World War drew to its conclusion in November 1916. Trevor Wilson and Robin Prior... |
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John Bossy has painstakingly reconstructed from clues and evidence, a hitherto untold story of intellectual intrigue, spying and double-cross in Elizabethan... |
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Milton Goldin compares American philanthropy past and present. |
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Never-never land? Marina Warner delves into the world of fairy stories to discover a historical context of family discord and feminine assertiveness in the... |
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Peter Wiseman reconstructs the splendour and intrigue of Imperial Rome |
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The Battle of the Somme began on July 1st, 1916. 21,000 men were killed on the first day. In this article, Trevor Wilson and Robin Prior reassess the campaign.... |
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Max Beloff reviews a new work on the leading statesmen of the war |
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Maurice Hilton discovers a message of European cultural unity in a splendid Baroque doorway in Prague. |
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Richard Cavendish paddles along with the Coracle Society. |
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Two new works focussing on urban history |
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Felipe Armesto reviews two books on the New World. |
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by William Klingaman |
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Richard Cavendish visits an organisation devoted to architectural treats. |
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John Gillingham reviews two books on the Angevin era. |
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by David Spadafora and by H.M. Scott |
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Eric Ives reviews a new book on Thomas Wolsey |
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Nigel Saul reviews four new books on Lancashire and the north of England |
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Three new works reviewed by Bob Scribner |
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From Augustine to Alfred - Janet Backhouse discusses the material evidence and new views that are the backcloth to the major exhibition of Anglo-Saxon art and culture... |
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Michel Prestwich reviews |
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The ambiguous nature of the Reformation settlement in England has often taxed historians. Diarmaid MacCulloch casts a critical eye over the evidence for a 16th-... |
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Paul Rogers explores two new publications on Middle East history in the 20th century. |
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by Maurice Cranston |
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Two new general works on the history of the Christian religion |
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edited by Keith Sinclair |
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Three new books about the advent of the labour movement |
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Nigel Saul reviews a new book covering the period 1327-77 |
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John Crowfoot considers the role flags and anthems have played in defining Soviet and Russian identities, past and present. |
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The links of sentiment and interest between Britain and the United States, though frequently subject to prophesies of continental drift, remain tenacious. Esmond... |
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Did he fall... or was he pushed? Michael MacDonald investigates the cause celebre of Arthur Capel, Earl of Essex, found with his throat cut in the Tower... |
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Greek and Roman history through archaeology |
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Two new works exploring the life of Elizabeth I |
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Michael Foot celebrates the 150th anniversary of the London Library with a tribute to its founder, Thomas Carlyle. |
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Elizabeth Longford reviews |
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The story of Michael Faraday, the genius of electricity, is very much a classic tale of the rise from obscure origins to scientific eminence. But as Frank James... |
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Hugh Brogan nominates Alexis de Tocqueville rather than Karl Marx as a useful guide to the new world order of history in the 90s. |
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Trevor Fisher takes a fresh look at 1066 and All That and finds it a text for the times. |
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Business with pleasure - Steven Gunn shows how the spectacle of the joust oiled the wheels of service and diplomacy as well as building up the court's image, not... |
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The early Renaissance royal palace on the Thames |
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History Workshop celebrates its birthday |
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Kevin Sharpe examines three new books from Conrad Russell on 17th century England and the Civil War |
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New insights in Celtic history in Europe |
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Edward Norman reviews two new books on modern era Christianity. |
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John Childs reviews |
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Ann Hills on fishing tales from Hawaii |
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Miranda Vickers looks at the troubled history of Yugoslav-Albanian relations |
