History Today

Andrew Lambert explains why Nelson’s life and death should never be forgotten.

Was Margaret Thatcher’s government close to defeat during the dark days of the miners’ strike of 1984-85?

The fatalist view of the Light Brigade’s charge towards the Russian guns at Balaclava is being challenged. They had their reasons why.

Philip Carter celebrates the lives reclaimed by the newly-published Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Mark Goldie traces the ways in which people across the political spectrum have used and abused the ideas of the philosopher who died 300 years ago this month.

Daniel Snowman profiles the historian of War, Finance, Empire and ‘Virtual’ History.

Alastair Bonnett discusses Eastern ideas of the West, and argues they form part of a non-Western debate on modernity and society.

Colin White surveys current scholarship on the national hero and announces an autumn lecture series devoted to him.

Catherine Allen describes a new oral history project that aims to create an archive charting the experiences of disabled people throughout the twentieth century.

Steven King argues that government policy on pensions is returning to the principles and practice of the Old Poor Law.