History Today

Chinese labour in South African mines presented a problem to Liberal consciences, writes John Lehmann.

In 1917, writes Charles Maechling, the new Emperor of Austria tried to extricate his country from the turmoil of the First World War with the help of Prince Sixtus.

D.H. Burton writes that Roosevelt was one of the chief architects of an Anglo-American understanding that survived many diplomatic crises.

The first Victorian naval ships were much the same as Nelson’s Victory; by the end of the century, writes Derek Lawrence, armour, fire-power and methods of propulsion had totally changed.

In 1373, writes Jan Read, King Edward III signed an alliance with Portugal which has lasted ever since.

W. Bruce Lincoln describes how the European Revolutions of 1848 alarmed the Russian Government so much, it sent its armies to aid the Habsburgs in Hungary.

After service in the Russo-Japanese War, writes Norman Saul, the Aurora helped to secure the Bolshevik triumph in Petrograd.

The powers of American Riflemen were underestimated by the British Government, though not, writes John Pancake, by observers in the field.

The Boers, writes R.F. Currey, made a paramount gain during the peace that followed the South African war.