History Today

Vietnamese troops faced little resistance when they entered Cambodia's capital on January 7th, 1979.

A power struggle in postwar Germany erupted on January 5th, 1919.

Richard Willis charts how order was brought to the medical profession by the foundation of the General Medical Council 150 years ago.

Terry Brown explores the arborial legacy of a penny-pinching duke.

A spate of recent films suggest that the scars of Germany’s history show little sign of healing. Markus Bauer reports.

Roger Moorhouse takes issue with the secular sainthood bestowed on Claus von Stauffenberg.

History Today welcomes its seventh Editor to the magazine.

The head of Japan's Second World War government was executed on Dec 23rd, 1948

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.

Nigel Watson reports the decision to keep Cornwall’s telecommunications operation going after all.