Volume: 50 Issue: 1

January 24th, 1800

The MP for Blackpool South and ex-editor of History Today describes how his early interest in history bewildered his family but proved ineradicable.

Daniel Snowman talks to a man who has devoted his long and distinguished career to unravelling the threads of American freedom.

Asa Briggs looks at the continuities and contrasts between 1851, 1951 and 2000.

Susan Cohen and Clive Fleay rediscover the forgotten lives and work of three women who sought to alleviate the plight of Britain’s Edwardian underclass.

Stephen Gundle settles in the stalls to re-view the epochal Fellini film that defined the hedonistic spirit of post-war Italy.

January 14th, 1900

Greening urban landscapes is nothing new, says Joyce Ellis, the Georgians were Greens too.

With all the talk of the new millennium, we seem to have lost sight of something rather more important: the dawning of a new century.

New documents have come to light which help to explain why John Harrison refused to compete for the Longitude prize even though his sea-clock appeared to work well....

David Braund re-examines what we know about Britain at the time of the Roman invasions.

On January 31st, 1950, Truman announced that he had directed the Atomic Agency Commission 'to continue with its work on all forms of atomic energy weapons,...

70 years ago today, Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy, landed in Scotland. But historians differ over the true nature of his mission.