History Today

Anthony Fletcher pays tribute to the great historian of English protestantism, who ventured far and wide in the academic world.

Inspired by the discovery of the frozen bodies of three soldiers of the First World War, Peter Englund considers the ways we remember and write about a conflict of which there are now no survivors left.

Few figures in British political history have endured such lingering hostility as the statesman who did so much to forge Europe’s post-Napoleonic settlement, says John Bew.

The academic training that historians undergo qualifies them to speak out on issues beyond their remit, argues Tim Stanley.

Gated communities may be growing in number but they are nothing new, as Michael Nelson knows from personal experience.

Dorothy Sherindan, the Archivist of Mass-Observation at the University of Sussex, traces its development - and revival in the 1980s.

The failings of China's 1911 Revolution heralded decades of civil conflict, occupation and suffering for the Chinese people.

The standing of Britain’s police forces may be in decline at home, yet their insights into policing methods and practices are still sought eagerly elsewhere, according to Clive Emsley and Georgina Sinclair.

Thomas Penn examines M.J. Tucker’s article on the court of Henry VII, first published in History Today in 1969.

What was behind Colonel Thomas Blood’s failed attempt to steal the Crown Jewels during the cash-strapped reign of Charles II and how did he survive such a treasonable act?