History Today

Peter Furtado announces the winners of the 2005 Longman-History Today Awards.

In his latest article about today’s historians, Daniel Snowman meets the creator of some of the finest TV history programmes, including Auschwitz, currently being shown on BBC2.

Adrian Mourby reveals the thinking behind the new Turks exhibition at the Royal Academy.

Rhoads Murphey reflects on a thousand years of Turkic cultural development.

Judy Urquhart recalls a forgotten use of Colditz Castle after the end of the Second World War – as a prison for German aristocrats.

Julie Rugg reports on recent research done into official attitudes towards burial during the Blitz.

Tamerlane, or Timur, one of history's most brutal butchers, died on 18 February 1405.

Bernhard Rieger considers how luxury liners became icons of modernity and national pride in the early decades of the twentieth century.

Phil Reed, Director of the new Churchill Museum, gives a personal insight into the development of the new museum housed in the Cabinet War Rooms, which opens to the public this month.

Yehuda Koren tells one family’s remarkable story of surviving Auschwitz.