History Today

John Jackson exhumes the extraordinary case of a middle-aged woman from Derby convicted of plotting to murder the Prime Minister.

The Indian Mutiny and Rebellion, which broke out 150 years ago this month, was the greatest revolt against British imperialism of its century. Joseph Coohill uncovers some Indian accounts of what happened and why.

Vic Gatrell, recently awarded the PEN/Hessell-Tiltman History Book of the Year award 2006 for his book on the satire of 18th- and early 19th-century Britain, explains what impels his writing.

Mark Bryant looks at the work of the Punch artist whose drawings symbolized British anger over the Indian Mutiny and established his own reputation.

Richard Cavendish provides an overview of the life of Daphne du Maurier, who was born on May 13th, 1907.

Gerald Howson tells the tale of the Spanish republican who invented a jet engine and died during Franco’s coup.

A.J. Stockwell reviews a new collection of writings by Wm. Roger Louis.

After the Crucifixion, writes J.K. Elliott, the disciples had a vivid and personal feeling that Jesus was in some sense still with them.

Patricia Cleveland-Peck visits a Canadian city that looks to the future yet has an intriguing past.

Tobias Grey introduces a film about the North African soldiers in the Second World War which has taken France by storm, and is opening in Britain on March 30th.