History Today

Just over a thousand years ago Chinese printers completed the publication of the Confucian Classics—an event as important in the history of civilization as the printing of the Gutenberg Bible. By Adrian L. Julian.

C.R. Boxer examines the travels and writings of Robert Knox in a 17th century Buddhist kingdom.

Erich Eyck compares the legend and the reality of Prussia's infamous 18th century ruler, Frederick William I.

These letters, written between 1797 and 1815, are part of a series from Maria Josepha Stanley to her father Lord Sheffield. At the beginning of the period Maria Josepha had been married six months, and was living in Newcastle-upon-Tyne where her husband, a Captain in the Cheshire Militia, had been posted with his regiment to resist any attempted invasion by the forces of the Directorate. Edited by Lord Stanley of Alderley.

Sir Robert Hodgson recounts his experience of interaction with Bolshevik diplomats.

J. Hurstfield analyses social conditions in the Elizabethan age.

Cyme, near the modern Smyrna, was one of the ports that served the Phrygians during the centuries from 1000-700 B.C., when they dominated Asia Minor. Freya Stark studies the civilization of this ancient people, from whom the Greeks derived one of the three modes of classical music.

Dorothy George looks at the development of political - and often satirical - public artwork in early modern Britain.

Administrator, Orientalist, patron of science and founder of Singapore, Raffles was an enlightened Governor of Java during the British occupation, 1811-1816.

Gibraltar provides one of the examples of how the British Empire was 'acquired in a fit of absence of mind'.