Charlie Chaplin’s Coffin Stolen
Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery on March 2nd, 1978.
History Today
The Old Pretender Sails for Scotland
Richard Cavendish marks a failed attempt on the Scottish and English thrones by the last Stuart pretender, on March 23rd, 1708.
The First of the Hundred Days
Franklin Delano Roosevelt – widely regarded as one of the greatest of all American presidents – began his first term in office on 4 March, 1933.
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The treaty that ended Russia’s participation in the First World War was signed on 3 March 1918.
Cortona, Chiantishire
York Membery found much to savour when he paid a visit to the medieval town of Cortona for the Tuscan Sun Festival.
Family Research in Shanghai
Patricia Cleveland-Peck finds out how family historians can research the lives of their ancestors in the fast-changing city of Shanghai.
The Destruction of Le Panier
Sixty-five years ago, the Nazis carried out one of their most spectacular atrocities in occupied France, destroying almost an entire quartier of Marseilles. John Gimlette pays a visit to Le Panier, and finds it still physically and emotionally scarred.
Business As Usual? London and the Industrial Revolution
Commentators have tended to play down the importance of London as a business and industrial centre since 1500, argues Theo Barker, and in the process have distorted the saga of Britain’s economic rise and fall.
Strafford in Ireland 1633-40
Hugh Kearney reconsiders the models for and motives of Charles I's most controversial minister in 'John Bull's other island'.
Germany's Convict Exports
Richard Evans tells the little-known story of how 19th-century Germany attempted to solve its prison problems by secretly sending felons to the United States as immigrants.