History Today

German Diaries

Roger Moorhouse visits a unique archive of diaries from German history

The Jewel of History

Corinne Julius visits a new gallery of jewels at the V&A to see what sparkle they add to our understanding of history.

Desert Warfare

Jo Woolley and David Smurthwaite of the National Army Museum look at Desert Warfare in the Second World War and more widely.

Ministering Angels

‘God’s work more than ours’. In the first of three articles looking at the image of professional women at work, Anne Summers considers the tension between spiritual and material motivations in Victorian nursing and social reform.

The Ascendancy Mind

A dream world, or a culture of style that carried within it the seeds of self-destruction? Roy Foster marks the high tide of the 18th-century’s Anglo-Irish elite.

The Webbs: Working On Trade Union History

For Sidney and Beatrice Webb, recording the struggles of early trade unionism - and subsidising its publication - were an integral part of their social commitment, by Chris Wrigley.

John Bunyan and his Publics

Christopher Hill marks the 300th anniversary of Bunyan 's death with a Portrait of a self-educated radical seen as a subversive by Restoration England’s Establishment