History Today

Raymond Dawson reflects on 2,000 years of historical composition in China, beginning with Ssu-ma Ch’ien.

Christopher Lloyd documents some lesser known companions on the great voyager's journies.

Maurice Craig visits the Irish capital.

Hugh Latimer unearths the role of the rubber plant in the story of empire and Malayan nation-building.

Roger Hudson expands on a photograph of Enoch Powell campaigning in his Wolverhampton seat in 1970.

Geoffrey Grigson places the great English landscape artist in historical context.

C.E. Stevens searches the elusive world of ancient Britain.

T. Charles Edwards on the position of Catholics in Victorian England.

The memories of Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, of the political crisis that Gladstone's final resignation caused at the heart of the British government in 1894.

T.H. McGuffe describes the invasion, and subsequent hurried retreat, of England during the Jacobite Rebellion.