History Today

Lord Kinross unearths the problematic modern history of Cyprus.

John Carswell analyses some of the foremost political actors in the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

Only by a trick of fate in 1683, finds J.H.M. Salmon,  were Charles II and his brother preserved from an ambush that might have put an end to monarchy in England.

Felix W. Crosse assesses the life and legacy of Duke Charles of Brunswick.

Sir Lewis Namier examines the British Parliamentary groupings of the country gentlemen and their reactions to the movements of public opinion during the years 1750-1783.

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.