Volume: 62 Issue: 6

Marilyn V. Longmuir asks if Aung San Suu Kyi’s recent election victory completes the political journey begun by her father?

Jonathan Fenby on the long history behind the rapid demise of one of the brightest lights in China’s political firmament.

Over the next four issues we will be looking at the history of the British Isles by examining its former and present constituent parts – Wales, Scotland, Ireland...

Nicola Phillips reports from a recent London conference that looked at the ways in which new technology is changing local and family history.

Chris Millington says we shouldn’t be surprised by the Front national’s show of strength in the recent French elections.

As a boy growing up in Munich Edgar Feuchtwanger witnessed the rise of Germany’s dictator at extraordinarily close range.

The boxer's great victory over James J. Braddock took place on June 22nd, 1937.

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

As London gears up for the start of the Olympics next month, David Runciman compares the 2012 games with the London Olympics of 1908 and 1948 to see what they...

A public spat between a historian and a writer shows why some subject matter deserves special reverence, says Tim Stanley.

Richard Cavendish remembers the royal favourite who died on June 19th, 1312.

Roger Hudson on a moment in the story of Scottish emigration captured in 1923.

As Elizabeth II celebrates 60 years on the throne, Ian Bradley looks at the fundamentally religious nature of monarchy and the persistence of its spiritual aspects...

In the summer of 1941 a collection of paintings by serving members of the London Fire Brigade  was exhibited in the United States. Anthony Kelly describes the...

From Captain Cook to playboy Prince Bertie, Tessa Dunlop examines the appeal of the tattoo among high society.

Commentators repeat with regularity the claim that the Queen’s greatest achievement, besides simple longevity, is her modernisation of the monarchy. But, says Dan...

Julia Lovell reappraises Leslie Marchant’s article on the Opium Wars, first published in History Today in 2002.

Enter this month's crossword and win the audiobook Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Our Times.

In the Middle Ages, with the re-emergence of Salic Law, it became impossible for women to succeed to the throne in most European kingdoms. Yet between 1274 and...

Nicholas Mee recalls Jeremiah Horrocks, the first astronomer to observe Venus cross in front of the Sun, whose discoveries paved the way for the achievements of...

A thorough and dispassionate history of a conflict which has a grim topicality for our times.

The rich story of comics in the UK, condensed into a very readable narrative.

Tony Benn's introduction to the leader of the 17th-century English radical Digger movement.

Keith Lowe argues that in history, there is no weapon quite so powerful as a good statistic.

Alan Forrest's new book tackles the ever-vexing question: How did Napoleon do it?

A portrait of Gregorio Casali, Italian ambassador to Henry VIII during his attempts to annul his marriage with Katherine of Aragon.

Roger Moorhouse is impressed by a valuable contribution to an under-known chapter of Europe's modern history.

In this month's quiz: questions on the liberation of Ecuador, China's first modern army and the Defender of the Holy Sepulchre.