History Today

At first the English withstood the Norman attack of 1066. But soon they succumbed to the invaders, as did their virile language of record. An article by H.R. Loyn.

A study of Lenin by D.A. Longley which questions the usual criteria by which the great Soviet leader's influence and legacy are judged.

Vietnam's expansionism in Indochina during the 1970s had its roots in its pre-colonial past, argues Milton Osborne.

Anne Roberts explores the incidence of plague in England from 1348 to 1679.

Walter Minchinton, with assistance from the late Peveril Meig, looks at the potential of the ocean - from tidal mills to power stations.

E.G. Chipulina on the British Colony, Gibraltar's long history.

'The White man is concerned with commerce and the Black man must trade with the White. Let the Blacks do no harm to the Whites and in the same way the Whites must do no harm to the Blacks' - Behanzin, last King of Dahomey. An Article by John D. Hargreaves

Francis Robinson looks at the relationship between teacher and pupil in Islamic society.

The first of the series by J. Kenneth Major, on the harnessing of human and animal sources of energy.