Volume: 57 Issue: 6

Christopher Phipps introduces one of the capital’s great private institutions, and invites History Today readers to visit on June 28th.

Robert Gerwarth looks at the ways in which Otto von Bismarck was turned into a mythical hero-figure of the right and shows how the ‘Bismarck myth’ contributed to...

Daniel Scharf of the Oxford Trust for Contemporary History describes the battle to preserve RAF Upper Heyford as a unique monument to the Cold War.

After a decade in which the watchwords of govern­ment have been ‘new’ and ‘reform’, we have a change at the top.

David Roffe asks why exactly Domesday Book, the oldest and most precious of the English public records, was compiled – and for whom.

Mark Bryant describes the life and works of Abu Abraham, the Observer’s first ever political cartoonist.

Simon Sebag Montefiore imagines dinner with Catherine the Great, Prince Potemkin and Stalin.

Fiona Kisby reviews a recent conference on history education and offers a personal view on the aims, nature and significance of history in British schools.

Colin Jacobson looks at the history of a pioneering photojournalism magazine.

Andrew Pettegree asks why so many small towns in France have magnificent libraries of rare books.

Charlie Cottrell describes the on-going efforts to save for the nation one of its best-loved maritime monuments.

Richard Cavendish describes the British victory at Plassey in Bengal, on June 23rd, 1757.

Richard Cavendish describes the motor race to Paris which set off from Beijing on June 10th, 1907.

Benjamin Ziemann reviews a new book on Germany's WWI home front.

Francis Robinson looks for the distinctively tolerant and worldly features of Mughal rule in India and that of the related Islamic dynasties of Iran and Central ...

Neil Taylor looks for traces of history visible and invisible in the great square at the heart of Beijing.