History Today

E.E.Y. Hales outlines the theories of and challenges to the British socialist historian and philosopher.

Between 1886 and 1889, writes John Roberts, an ambitious soldier, taking advantage of a “vague aspiration toward national regeneration”, seemed to come near to destroying the Republic in France.

Wars have left their impact in Sheffield, and the Crimean War perhaps more than any. W.H.G. Armytage marks the metamorphosis of a large-scale industrial city

Robin Bruce Lockhart traces the development of Russia's fleets, from the Napoleonic era to the Soviet period.

George Rudé analyses the events of what started as an anti-Catholic protest, but ended with violence and looting.

On the morning of October 21st, 1805, writes Christopher Lloyd, Nelson’s crushing defeat of the combined naval forces of France and Spain won for Britain an unchallenged mastery of the seas that was to last for over a hundred years.

J.M. Thompson profiles Napoleon's revolutionary younger brother, who often clashed with the French leader.

Greenwich has for centuries been associated with the Royal Navy, and from 1705 until 1869, writes Richard Ollard, the Royal Naval Hospital was the home of pensioned veterans.

Charles Dimont asserts that few small countries have had such a variety of alien rulers as Malta, and yet maintained such a highly distinctive identity.

Robert Rhodes James profiles the man rivalled only by Gladstone as the most able politician and Parliamentarian of his time.