Volume: 62 Issue: 11

Jeremy Black considers Hanoverian precedents for the wayward behaviour of royal younger brothers.

James Barker describes the impact of an SOE mission in wartime Greece 70 years ago this month to demolish the Gorgopotamos railway bridge.

Sarah Mortimer looks at the historiography of what followed the British Civil Wars: the Republic led by Oliver Cromwell.

Richard C. Hall looks at the bloody conflicts in south-eastern Europe which became the blueprint for a century of conflict in the region.

Gyanesh Kudaisya considers how the Sino-Indian war of 1962 has shaped relations between Asia’s two largest nations.

The battle of the Milvian Bridge in October 312 has attained legendary status as the moment when the Emperor Constantine secured the future of Christianity in...

Humiliating, painful and reminiscent of crucifixion, the British army’s Field Punishment No 1 fuelled public outrage during the First World War, as Clive Emsley...

The erudite courtier, and inventer of the flush water closet, died on November 20th, 1612.

The great English king was born on November 13th, 1312.

Edward III’s 700th anniversary is a suitable moment to celebrate one of England’s greatest monarchs, says Ian Mortimer.

Panikos Panayi explores attitudes to German prisoners interned during the First World War.

For three generations one Calcutta family pioneered cultural, political and social advance, making a profound mark on Indian modernity, says Chandak Sengoopta....

A selection of readers' correspondence with the editor, Paul Lay.

Colin Smith recounts the Allied invasion of French North Africa, which commenced on November 8th, 1942.

Penelope J. Corfield proposes a new and inclusive long-span history course – the Peopling of Britain – to stimulate a renewed interest in the subject among the...

Judith Flanders applauds Jerry White’s analysis of poverty in North London, first published in History Today in 1981.

Jacob Middleton finds that, far from being a relic of a cruel Victorian past, corporal punishment became more frequent and institutionalised in 20th-century...

Since the 1980s the American family has evolved towards greater diversity and complexity. Yet, paradoxically, it is the essentially conservative nuclear family...

The first commercially successful machine gun emerged November 4th 1862.

Enter our crossword and win an audiobook version of The Map That Changed the World.

The story of how simple farming communities developed into a territorially large, politically unified and highly centralised state.

A new book acknowledges in rich detail the experiences of Britain’s black seafarers.

A definitive English-language account of the Frenchman who translated  hieroglyphs.

A great deal of what passes for history might be said to be forged. This is particularly true of national histories, a subject explored in this new book.

For most of his political life William Churchill's main source of income was his work as a writer and journalist. Was he any good?

The Order of Apostles and Social Change in Medieval Italy, 1260-1307

The Stratford-upon-Avon became a shrine to the Bard.

A biography of the man considered by some to be the "greatest soldier of the twentieth century".

A well-paced narrative of the conflagration that burned Parliament to the ground in 1834.

A new biography looks beyond William Wilberforce's public profile to consider his private life.