History Today

G. Barraclough describes how our vision of history is shaped by the great records of churches, nations, and kings.

In 1794, at the start of the French Revolutionary Wars, 'the nation wanted a victory'. It was provided by Admiral Howe.

Arnold Whitridge recounts the brief but dangerous nineteenth century Anglo-American naval crisis that almost led to war.

A.E.W. Salt traces through the ages the story of his native Herefordshire village.

John Roberts sees the Dreyfus Affair not only as the representative of the sordid politics of the Third Republic, but as a belated effect of the French Revolution.

Lord David Cecil appraises the eventful career of William Lamb, who influenced momentous political reform in both Ireland and England.

In the 1860s the Republic of Paraguay, under its dictator, Francisco Solano López, and his Irish consort, Eliza Lynch, became engaged in a desperate seven-years war with its neighbours. The memoirs of a small group of British doctors and engineers provide the basis for this account of the struggle.

L.G. Pine assesses John Horace Round: to the chronicles of family history he brought the acumen and industry of a great historian.

Received by the King, blessed by the Primate and huzza’d by Etonians, Chief Tomochich's party was a model good-will mission. By T.R. Reese.

Peter Dickson pores over the wreckage of 18th century England's most infamous financial scandal.