History Today

F.R. Cowell describes how the Romans were keen book-collectors; and the works they bought were often expensive and beautifully produced.

Richard Davis describes how, though the supreme propagandist of Irish nationalists and separatists, in the Rising itself Griffith played no active part.

Anthony Dent describes the battle order of a Roman Governor in Asia Minor during the second century, A.D.

Wallace Brown describes how, during the decades before the Civil War, the United States abounded in religious reformers and perfectionists.

The problems of later life are always with us, writes Steven R. Smith. Among those who have studied them are both a famous philosopher and a renowned physician.

Stephen Usherwood introduces a remarkable advocate in politics as well as in his practice; Lord Mansfield was Lord Chief Justice for thirty-two years.

The Parisian idol died on 11 October 1963.

The last Vietnamese emperor was born on October 22nd, 1913.

The great humanitarian organisation was founded on 29 October 1863.

As a new translation of the writings of the ‘father of history’ is published, Paul Cartledge looks at the methods of enquiry that make the Greek master such a crucial influence on historians today.