History Today

Laurence Whistler charts the history of the magnificent seat of the Churchills.

J.J. Bell describes a powerful force of raiders on the early modern Scottish Borders.

Roger Fulford introduces the life and career of 'perhaps the dimmest' British Prime Minister.

W.F. Knapp reappraises a great historian of nineteenth century France.

D.H. Pennington introduces the picturesque Cotswold town.

Emile de Groot on the often fractious but ever-intimate relationship between European powers and Egypt.

Arthur Waley on the pioneering French explorer and early scholar of Indian culture.

Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, accounts for the last hours in active British politics for the 'Grand Old Man'.

Charles Seltman helps explain the mysteries of the Diopet.

John Clive records how, during the opening years of the 19th century, Edinburgh added to its European reputation by producing one of the most famous critical magazines of the age.