History Today

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.

Mark Bryant looks at the cartoons produced in response to the conflict which followed the Opium Wars between China and the West.

M.J. Cohen celebrates the life of Thomas Fuller, a pioneer historian and contemporary of Milton, with whom he shares a 400th anniversary.

Liz Homans looks back over the long campaign to remove the death penalty from the statute book in Britain.