Volume: 53 Issue: 6

Anthony Reid traces some surprising precedents for the many recent women rulers in South and Southeast Asia.

John Morrill remembers and assesses the Marxist historian of the English Revolution, who died recently.

Joanna Green profiles a new project in association with the Museum of London, that provides a showcase for the history of London’s docklands.

Jennie Price celebrates 75 years of the completion of the O.E.D.

Philip Mansel explores the City of the Sultans from 1453 onwards, and finds it characterised by a vibrant multi-culturalism until the Ottoman demise of 1922.

Peter Furtado introduces the June 2003 issue of History Today which commemorates the 550th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks.

Bill Rolston describes the impact of an erstwhile slave, who toured the Emerald Isle speaking out against slavery in 1845.

Erica Fudge considers what it meant to be described as an animal in the 16th and 17th centuries, and what divided humans from the rest of creation.

Richard Cavendish describes how King Alexander and Queen Draga of Serbia were assassinated during the night of June 10th/11th, 1903.

Sir Patrick Cormack, long serving Member of Parliament for South Staffordshire and a passionate advocate of heritage and history, recalls his youthful affection for...

Sheila O’Connell describes one of the key events in the British Museum’s 250th anniversary celebrations.

In researching his ground-breaking new portrait of the man who commanded the Soviet defence to Hitler, Albert Axell spent time in Russia, interviewing people close to...

Edgar Vincent analyses the spectacularly successful, and surprisingly modern, leadership strategy of Horatio Nelson.

Richard Cavendish describes the Battle of Civitate, fought by the Normans and a papal coalition on June 18th, 1053.

Judith Herrin tells the dramatic story of the final moments of Byzantine control of the imperial capital.