Volume: 62 Issue: 10
Contents of History Today, October 2012 |
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Oliver Stone’s 2004 film Alexander portrayed the great Macedonian king as bisexual. Was he also a transvestite? Tony Spawforth looks to uncover the truth... |
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The enmity between England and France is an ancient one. But the museum dedicated to a famous English victory offers hope for future relations between the two... |
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Roger Hudson sheds light on a haunting photograph from the Greek Civil War. |
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King Leopold II’s personal rule of the vast Congo Free State anticipated the horrors of the 20th century, argues Tim Stanley. |
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The pioneering female traveller was born on October 13th, 1862. |
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Today, choosing a new Archbishop of Canterbury is a relatively straightforward process. It was not always so, as Katherine Harvey explains. |
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The ‘British Empire’ was the name given by imperialists in the late 19th century to Britain’s territorial possessions. It was meant to create an image of unity and... |
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The release this month of the 23rd Bond film, Skyfall, coincides with the 50th anniversary of James Bond’s first appearance on the silver screen. Klaus... |
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The eldest son of King John was born on October 1st, 1207. |
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A selection of readers' correspondence with the editor, Paul Lay. |
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US presidential candidate Mitt Romney is a Mormon, which is a problem for some voters. But, says Andrew Preston, so was the Catholicism of John F. Kennedy and it... |
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Richard Lowe-Lauri looks at the decline of bull running in the English town of Stamford. |
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The Emperor Constantine won a great victory on October 28th, 312. |
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J.L. Laynesmith unravels one of the mysteries of the Bayeux Tapestry. |
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In recent decades few fields of historical inquiry have produced as rich a body of work as the British Civil Wars. Sarah Mortimer offers a guide to the latest... |
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Peter Hennessy looks back to his 1994 Longman-History Today lecture, delivered just as a revolution in British contemporary history was beginning to bear fruit.... |
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Enter our monthly crossword and win the audiobook Cleopatra: A Life |
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Graeme Garrard recalls Isaac Brock, the Guernsey-born army officer still celebrated in Canada for his part in defending British North America from the United... |
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Two hundred years ago Britain and the United States went to war. The conflict was a relatively minor affair, but its consequences were great, says Jeremy Black.... |
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Onyeka explores the changing meanings of words for Africans in Tudor England. |
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This masterly book is required reading for anyone interested in the place of religion south of the Rio Grande. |
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Stripping away the myths surrounding the medieval monk. |
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An impressively original portrait of life in Soho. |
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A dense and error-riddled biogaphy makes for an unsatisfying portrait of the queen. |
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Steven Gunn is impressed by a revisionst book that makes bold statements about the history of early modern warfare. |
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In this month's quiz: Lincoln's assassin, the 'Little Entente' and the Integralismo. |
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A forensic examination of a mid-Victorian cause célébre involving adultery and divorce. |
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A portrait of late antiquity in the West that must surely rank as the most vivid and compassionate ever painted. |
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A study of British imperial history, without the usual hang-ups. |
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William Hogarth’s life was a microcosm of the three main themes of Georgian life, argues Michael Dean. |
