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Todd Gray and Mark Stoyle take a look at a map discovered in Plymouth of the sieges of the Civil War.

Four histories on the shaping of modern Britain.

David Rooney argues that Chindit commander Orde Wingate has had his Burma campaign unfairly judged by military establishments.

Brian Holden Reid reviews two new works on aspects of military history

Max Beloff review two books on the great historian

Donald Cameron Watt on American and Russian relations

Tony Aldous investigates the findings of researchers at Southampton University and colleagues at Amsterdam’s University academic centre into the effects of...

Michael Leech looks into the work going on at archaeological site Hamptonne property in Jersey.

Our seasonal round-up of the latest history titles from the publishing world catering for the general reader and specialist alike.

Peter Fowler looks at the varied spiritual and physical landscapes of a twenty-eight-and-a-half acre site in Wiltshire which contains one of the most important...

Peter Ling reviews two new books on vices

Barbara Schreier offers a fascinating insight into how the dress, customs and attitudes of Jewish women escaping pogroms in Eastern Europe altered as part of their...

A tribute to the Blackpool tower which celebrates its 100th birthday this summer.

A digest of books to coincide with the celebrations

Tam Dalyell reviews two new works on the troubled Balkan region

Has Britain been de-industrialising since 1945? Robert Millward weighs up the evidence for and against - with some surprising conclusions.

Ann Hills investigates the findings of the British Waterways Architectural survey.

Robin Cormack reviews these two new books

Elizabeth Marvick highlights the similarities of allegation and opposition to two embattled American presidents - Thomas Jefferson and Bill Clinton.

Ian Fitzgerald examines the benefits of accessing British History now available on CD-ROM.

  Mark Meigs uncovers a fascinating initiative enacted in France at the end of the First World War designed to turn American soldiers into students empowered with all...

Reunion of the June 1944 armada

Richard Pflederer on the technological and cartographical advances of the early modern naval powers of Holland and England

Frank McDonough reviews

Richard Barber reviews two books on medieval Europe

Simon Adams assesses new books on the Dutch Revolt

Three new works on the ancient world

Iain R. Smith explores a new study on South African history

Three new books from David Cannadine, Geoffrey Elton and Roy Porter

How the Livery companies of London prepare to show they are ready for the millennium

Ian Locke ponders on how careless we have been in the past in the wake of the Matrix-Churchill Iraq supergun affair.

Crispin Robinson reviews

Michael Leech examines the new look for the London transport museum.

Dick Geary reviews three new works on the Third Reich

Annette Bingham looks into the archaeological findings of Hong Kong's Bronze Age.

John Springhall finds 1950s echoes in the current controversy about children and horror videos.

Valery Rees surveys the life of the ruler who put 15th-century Hungary on the map, both culturally and geographically, but whose efforts may have put an...

Judith Rice on a sixteenth-century sect in the modern world.

John Morrill reviews three new books on the English Revolution

Richard Vinen explores two studies of wartime France

Simon Schaffer reviews two new books

Felix Barker investigates the revival of Lauderdale House.

Ian Bradley explores

Cherry Barnett investigates the tiny colony of Macau located west of Hong Kong as Lisbon prepares to relinquish its title as 1994 European city of culture.

Nicholas Young looks at how tribalism and the dominance of Hastings Banda has marked Malawi history and future prospects.

Nick Crafts looks at political factors in the chequered history of British economic performance since the high noon of mid-Victorian Britain.

Richard Cavendish discovers the riches and Diaspora and beyond in the Manchester Jewish museum.

We may all know about Nefertiti, but what was life like for the less-famous women of ancient Egypt? Joyce Tyldesley describes the restraints and freedoms operating...

Panikos Panayi reviews the latest

Three new books exploring African history and colonialism

Explanation about the myth history of Middle Ages Switzerland.

Liz Sagues investigates the book, In search of Neanderthals, which was named archaeological book of the year in 1994.

Ronnie Landau looks at the latest charges of genocide over Bosnia and wonders how often history must repeat itself.

Wild Bill Hicock and wagon trains - familiar images of pioneer spirit, but a more complex and less triumphalist view of how the American frontier moved West is...

Ann Hills on conflict in trust at Orford Ness

New books focussing on the working class

The latest books on 19th- and 20th-Century Europe

Alistair Hennessy on the Regency North Wales family whose country seat was built on the profits from the slave plantations of the Caribbean.

Crime and the 60s at the Open University

Geoffrey Crossick reviews three new books on society in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain

90th birthday of the eminent History Today contributor

Philip Davies examines how People Power has come to the fore via citizen initiatives in recent American history.

Christina Walkley looks at how the triumphs and tragedies of pioneer women on the trail West can be traced in their patchwork quilts.

Home movies for the Museum of the Moving Image

Two new studies of aspects of Irish history

Bruce Martin on whether nostalgia or modernism will win out in plans to reshape the centre of Berlin.

Richard Weight charts how the threat from Hitler galvanised opinion-formers into embracing a past and culture they had previously scorned.

J.R. Lander reviews two new works on the medieval monarch

Charles W. Mann assesses two books on finance and banking

Angela Morgan considers the effects of recent upheavals at the Science Museum.

Dan Wylie looks at the myths and realities of nineteenth century Zulu nationhood and their resonance in the new South Africa today.

Richard Ollard looks at the rise and fall of Sherborne Castle.

Our seasonal round-up of the latest history titles from the publishing world catering for the general reader and specialist alike.

Xinzhong Yao examines the prospects for Christianity in China based on past performance.

Exploration of a new museum opening in Lausanne on the Roman settlement in the area

Were art and religion inevitable victims of war? David Colvin and Richard Hodges discuss the action and the issues it raised - including testimony from a surviving...

Employment in America

Brian Holden Reid reviews

Steven Parissien reviews

Ralph Houlbrooke reviews two new books on social history

Alec Betterton explains how a timber-framed hall opens a window onto the piety and economics of a Suffolk market town in the 1520s.

Donald Barnes reviews two new works on historical religious figures

David Garner investigates the work of an archaeological team in their hunt in St Albans.

Christian Hesketh reviews

Catherine Hills examines two books focussing on Britain in the Middle Ages

Ian McBride reviews

Bruce Lenman looks at the colonial resonances of the Magazine Building, Williamsburg.

Middle Ages Europe

Michael Burleigh reviews two new books on Nazism

Ralph Harrington looks at the paranoias that railway travel stirred up as it spread across the 19th century.

Anthony Milton reviews two books on Charles I

Diarmaid MacCulloch reviews

Three new works on the period of the English Revolution

David Edgerton accentuates the positive in looking at the story of British technology in the 20th century.

Christy Anderson reviews two new books on architecture

The modern history of the United States

Two new books on the Tudor dynasty

Frank Nowikowski investigates missing paintings mysteriously found after the Second World War.

Frank McDonough looks at two new works on post-war Germany

Andrew Allen looks at one of the bizarre fairground attractions of Georgian England and the fate of its practitioners.

Three new books on gender

Denise Silvester-Carr plays tribute to Tower Bridge as it celebrates its 100th birthday.

Heroes or villains? Stewart Russell looks at the Indian after-life of American Civil War generals.

Robert Martin places the great American radical writer in the philosophical and sexual context of his time.

Essays in Honour of John Hale

Harry Hearder argues that language has been a help rather than a hindrance in Italy's past and present struggle to achieve political and psychological unity.

Social and religious studies from the 16th century

How easy or safe was it for women who travelled - often alone - in the new American republic? Patricia Cline Cohen charts their progress - and perils - and the way in...