History Today

Film historian Thomas Doherty does some detective work on a mystery from the 1930s, when the Hollywood studios had to deal with the upsurge of racism in Hitler’s Germany.

The prodigious composer was born in Salzburg on January 27th, 1756.

Simon Kitson explores the prevalence of spying for and against the Nazis in southern France after the German invasion.

Confusion between English and British history goes back a long way, as Alan MacColl reveals.

Historian June Purvis gives her very personal reflections on attending the ceremonies on HMS Victory on Trafalgar Day 2005.

The first result of the Liberal Party landslide was reported on January 12th, 1906, with a Liberal victory in Ipswich.

Having already resigned the sovereignty of the Netherlands in 1555, Charles V resigned Spain on January 16th, 1556.

Gavin Schaffer argues that the British have always been ambivalent in their attitude towards refugees, especially at times of war.

Jim Downs finds that the reasons the Federal government was slow to respond to Hurricane Katrina are rooted in the South’s racial and economic history, and wonders if the catastrophe may lead at last to genuine Reconstruction.

John Foxe’s graphic and angry work depicting the persecutions inflicted by the Roman Catholic church, was partly a response to the rising tide of intolerance across Europe in the mid-sixteenth century, but more specifically to the recent persecution of Protestants in England. David Loades describes the impact of one of the most significant books of its time.