The Spartacist Uprising in Berlin
A power struggle in postwar Germany erupted on January 5th, 1919.
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A Vital Operation: GMC Established
Richard Willis charts how order was brought to the medical profession by the foundation of the General Medical Council 150 years ago.
France: Sully’s Peace Trees
Terry Brown explores the arborial legacy of a penny-pinching duke.
Film in Germany: Red Army Reactions
A spate of recent films suggest that the scars of Germany’s history show little sign of healing. Markus Bauer reports.
A Good German? Von Stauffenberg and the July Plot
Roger Moorhouse takes issue with the secular sainthood bestowed on Claus von Stauffenberg.
The Importance of History
History Today welcomes its seventh Editor to the magazine.
Tojo Hideki Executed
The head of Japan's Second World War government was executed on Dec 23rd, 1948
The Liberals' Last Hurrah
York Membery looks back to the crunch 1920s election which saw the party of Gladstone narrowly pushed into third place – a position from which it has never recovered.
Goonhilly Not Down
Nigel Watson reports the decision to keep Cornwall’s telecommunications operation going after all.
Knocking Out the Boxers
Mark Bryant looks at the cartoons produced in response to the conflict which followed the Opium Wars between China and the West.