History Today

Martin Evans and Emmanuel Godin ask how close was France to becoming a Communist country in the years after the Second World War.

This month marks the 100th anniversary of St Petersburg’s Bloody Sunday. The Manchester Guardian was there, as Charlotte Alston describes.

Anne-Marie Kilday and Katherine Watson explore 18th-century child killers, their motivations and contemporary attitudes towards them.

Richard L. Pflederer visits the site of the first short-lived English colony in Maine set up in competition with Jamestown in Virginia, and considers a remarkable map of it drawn by one of the colonists.

Len Scales considers the complex role of martial skill in the development of national identity in the Middle Ages.

Benedict King pays personal tribute to a great historian and teacher.

Dorothy Wordsworth died on January 25th, 1855, aged eighty-four.

The Founding Father was born on 11 January 1755.

About 200 people died and 800 were wounded during the march led by Father George Gapon on 22 January 1905.