Volume: 60 Issue: 7

The economic crisis in Greece has drawn attention to the question of where best to display treasures such as the Elgin Marbles. Jonathan Downs offers some...

Dan Stone looks at how historians’ understanding of the Holocaust has changed since the end of the Cold War with the opening of archives that reveal the full...

Nick Poyntz looks at the ways in which the ubiquitous search engine is changing the nature of historical research.

Before the First World War, Irish Unionists and Nationalists were poised to fight each other over the imposition of Home Rule by the British. Then, remarkably,...

Paul Lay introduces the July 2010 issue of History Today.

Mark Juddery looks at the historical backdrop to the much-loved 1950s Hollywood musical, Singin’ in the Rain in which Hollywood tells its own story of the arrival...

Coalition governments became common in 18th-century Britain, but tended to fail at times of crisis. Jeremy Black draws some parallels with the present day.

Louise de Bettignies assisted the Allies in the Great War by establishing a vital information network in northern France. Patricia Stoughton recounts her...

Football became a potent expression of Algeria’s struggle for independence, never more so than during the dramatic events that preceded the 1958 World Cup, as...

What was the Great Reform Act of 1832, how did it come about and what, if anything, did it achieve? Stephen Farrell looks at the people and politics involved...

The killing of 69 black South Africans on March 21st, 1960 was a turning point: the world judged apartheid to be morally bankrupt and the political agitation that...

The Teutonic Knights were defeated at the Battle of Tannenberg, on July 15th, 1410.

Richard Cavendish remembers the birth of a publishing institution, on July 30th 1935.

The Great Exhibition of 1851 was not only a celebration of Victorian Britain’s scientific and economic pre-eminence but also a hymn to the religion that...

James Hamilton looks at how volcanic activity in Iceland in 1783 and elsewhere elicited strange reactions, and stimulated the creative powers of artists and...

The way the environment has been shaped and exploited is now a major field of historical study. A conference in London this month gathers leading experts in the...

The rise of the legal profession in late medieval and early Tudor England was greeted with disdain by the wider population. Anthony Musson asks whether the...

Jonathan Clark offers a historian’s perspective on what the recent general election might mean for Britain’s future political make up.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo was founded on June 30th, 1960. Within a few days, however, there were army mutinies and disturbances around the country....

David Souden reviews a guide to London architecture.

Hugh Brogan reviews a book about the history of Chicago.

David Waller reviews a title by Angela Thirlwell.

Andrew Robinson reviews a title by Philip Davies.

Elizabeth Wilson reviews a title by Rainer Metzger.

Andrew Hussey reviews a book about the Great Flood of Paris.

Nigel Jones reviews a title by Roland Vernon.

Kate reviews a title by Dan Cruickshank.

John Foot reviews a title by Frances Stonor Saunders.