History Today

Between the fourth and the sixteenth centuries two great Mayan civilizations arose and declined in Central America.

Walter Elliott on how an illustrious institution has weathered countless storms.

Rayner Heppenstall highlights the problems inherent in divisions of British and Irish history along racial lines.

Richard Hough explains how the epic construction of the first railway line linking England's largest cities changed the country forever.

Denys Sutton sees the revolutionary work of French artists reflected in the Spring of Nations.

M.G. Brock profiles one of Britain's most able yet ill-fated premiers.

G.H.L. LeMay sets the unique military features of Napoleonic France against those of the eighteenth century at large.

Leonard Schapiro examines the reasons behind the failure of the other revolutionary forces in revolutionary Russia.

Charles Seltman visits the Holiest Place of the Greeks. Part I of a two part series. Second part can be read here.

In the sixteenth century a Spanish bishop of Yucatán was active in preserving and also in destroying the records of Maya civilization.