History Today

The 'Churchill Question' is a complex one: a study in failure as well as success.

In his article last month in our series, 'Makers of the Twentieth Century', Jeremy Noakes evaluated Hitler's contribution to the creation of Nazi Germany and the outbreak of the Second World War. Now Dr. Noakes turns his attention to those who voted for the Nazis: from whom did the party of Hitler draw its support and what did it offer to the disillusioned German people?

An introduction by Paul Dukes to two articles on Celtic immigration to the New World.

St. Catherine of Siena lived out her whole life with a profound belief in the spiritual value of lay experience, explains Judith Hook.

Forrest McDonald and Grady McWhiney look at Celtic emigration to the Southern states of America.

Jacqueline A. Rinn on the forgotten contributors to colonial society.

In 1580, Portugal was joined with Spain in a sixty-year long and unpopular union.

The island of lona became the centre of Celtic Christianity in Scotland with the arrival of St. Columba in 563. Yet the monuments remaining there, argues Ruth Hildebrandt, are representative of another age and do not reflect the beliefs or practices of the Columban church.

Our understanding of coral and coral reefs, believes C.M. Yonge, was greatly advanced by the voyages of Cook and Darwin to the South Pacific.

Peter Beck sets contemporary reportage of and reaction to the 1924 Olympics in the context of their times.