History Today

In 1820, a plot to assassinate the British Prime Minister and his cabinet was exposed.

C.R. Boxer profiles the naval adventures of the Netherlands' Tromp family - a thorn in the side of mid-17th century English maritime activity.

Richard Hare recounts the history of Russia's Western metropolis.

Arthur Bryant examines the background to Magna Carta.

Julian Piggott shows how, with the help of a puppet state on the Rhine, France between 1919 and 1923 attempted to solve the perpetual problem of her eastern frontier.

 Michael Grant introduces a nineteenth century historian of Rome whose work is still authoritative and valid.

W. H. Chaloner considers how the Lombes “penetrated the secrets” of the closely guarded silk-throwing machines of Piedmont, and successfully introduced them into England

Michael Grant asks whether Caesar Augustus, sole ruler for forty-five years, was honest and sincere, or a 'hypocrite of genius'?

In an age of opportunity, G.E. Fussell describes how the Elizabethan farmer lived under pioneer conditions.

Taking a historiographical angle, Marcus Cunliffe describes how, in 1861, the American federal experiment broke down, and there ensued the greatest and most hard-fought of modern wars before that of 1914.