History Today

F.J. McLynn reviews the broad historiography of the Jacobite cause.

Rosamond Allwood reviews the 1983 exhibition at London's Geffrye Museum.

Robert Garland takes an unusual look at attitudes to death in ancient Greece and Rome.

Ian Kershaw wonders whether there was one single path of German history leading inexorably to Nazism.

F.M.L. Thompson looks at the public reception of the artist George Elgar Hicks.

Paul Rich argues that while the official response to post-war immigration was slow to develop, the tensions and white backlash of the late fifties marked its emergence as a national political issue.

Fifty years ago this month, Adolf Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor of Germany by the aging President Hindenburg. How were the Nazis able to 'seize power' in this way? Jeremy Noakes begins our special feature by explaining their success.

'War, far from being an exact science, is a terrible and impassioned drama' wrote Baron de Jomini in 1862. John Keegan argues that it is this drama that military historians must confront in their probe into man's past.

W.A. Coupe argues that German cartoonists ridiculed Hitler as a Chaplinesque little man, so it was easy not to take him seriously – until it was too late.

John Keegan reflects on the motives for war throughout human history.