Volume: 61 Issue: 4

Jacqueline Riding examines how a 19th-century painting, created almost 150 years after the Jacobite defeat at Culloden, has come to dominate the iconography of...

Stephen Alford admires a perceptive article on Lord Burghley, Elizabeth I’s ally and consummate political fixer, by the distinguished Tudor historian Joel...

Glittering monument to Britain’s colonial achievement or fragile symbol of a fragmenting imperial dream? Jan Piggott charts the efforts to make Joseph Paxton’s...

Paul lay introduces the April issue of our 61st volume.

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson’s future biographer, found Glasgow a dull place. Yet it was at the city’s university that he came into contact with the political...

Richard Cavendish remembers King Farouk's succession to the Egyptian throne on April 28th, 1936.

The editor answers your correspondence this month.

Richard Almond describes how some rare wall paintings help shed light on medieval hunting.

Richard Cavendish recreates the circumstances of Horatio Nelson's victory at Copenhagen on April 2nd, 1801.

Michael Bloch tells the story of one of the more unusual dynasties related to the Windsors.

As the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton approaches, Jenifer Roberts looks at the series of 18th-century weddings which led the Portuguese royal family...

Since its discovery in Yemen in 1972 a collection of brittle documents, believed to be among the earliest Koranic texts, has been the subject of fierce and...

Richard Cavendish marks the anniversary of St Catherine of Siena's canonisation by Pope Pius II.

As a major new exhibition on the Aesthetic Movement opens at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Richard Cavendish explores Bedford Park, the garden suburb inspired by...

Much western commentary on the turmoil in the Arab world demonstrates historical ignorance, argues Tim Stanley.

Modern day obituaries often speak of illnesses ‘bravely fought’, but the history of pain, a defining and constant experience in lives throughout history, lacks a...

In the light of current events in North Africa and the Middle East, David Motadel examines the increasing frequency of popular rebellions around the world.

Nigel Jones reviews a book on the lives of ordinary Berliners during the Second World War.

Paul Lay reviews one of the highly-commended entrants to the 2010 History Today awards.

Miri Rubin reviews a book on medieval religious persecution by Anthony Bale

Kevin Sharpe reviews a book on late Stuart England by Matthew Jenkinson

Miri Rubin reviews a book on the history of medicine, highly commended in the 2010 History Today awards

Sarah Dunant reviews a book about religious corruption by Craig A. Monson

Jeremy Black reviews a highly-commended work from the 2010 History Today book awards.