Volume: 55 Issue: 4

John Man, author of biographies of Genghis Khan and Attila, traces the journey that took him to Mongolia and Hungary, with a detour to the Gobi, and reveals the...

Denise Silvester-Carr describes the trials and tribulations of a fine Georgian House recently re-opened by English Heritage.

Jack Lohman, Director of the Museum of London, explains the significance of two Victorian paintings and why the Museum is delighted to have been able to acquire...

Peter Furtado urges history teachers to help mark the 2005 examinations.

Richard Cavendish charts the events leading up to the execution of Marin Falier, Doge of Venice, on April 18th, 1355.

Peter Furtado reviews the new film, directed and produced by Oliver Hirschbiegel (Momentum Pictures, 155 minutes).

T.P. Wiseman looks at the development of the myth of ancient Rome, derived from the way its history has been seen.

This month's letters from History Today readers.

Peter Furtado introduces the April 2005 issue of History Today.

In the month in which we commemorate the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, David Nicholas suggests that America’s involvement in northern Europe was unwittingly...

Kevin Haddick Flynn revisits the career and reassesses the character of this great Irish patriot.

Nigel Saul looks at a building which embodied much of England’s religious and political life in the later Middle Ages, and which staged the blessing of the...

Richard Cavendish marks the anniversary of the publication of Dr Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language, on April 15th, 1755.

Patricia Fara marks two significant Einstein anniversaries and points out some contradictions in the reputation of this great scientific hero.

Alexander Orlov, veteran of the Great Patriotic War, provides a Russian perspective on the battle for Berlin, and the controversies that have surrounded it as the...

Sarah Parker has curated an exhibition on the extraordinary ‘village’ community inhabiting Grace and Favour apartments at Hampton Court Palace, which, for the...