History Today

Matthew Howells introduces History Compass, a new concept in history publishing.

Denise Silvester-Carr visits the house that proved an inspiration to many in the Arts and Crafts movement, and which opens to the public on July 16th.

Godfrey Hodgson tells of a little-known episode in which an unofficial American diplomat attempted to redraw the political map in the summer of 1914, bringing peace to Europe and development to the Third World.

Simon Jones describes ‘Spirit of the Blitz: Liverpool in the Second World War’, a new exhibition created by National Museums Liverpool which opens at the Merseyside Maritime Museum on July 10th.

Following the publication of The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, Defoe was accused of seditious libel and put in the pillory on the last three days of July 1703.

Patrick Dillon identifies the mid-18th century as a watershed in ideas about reforming society.

Mike Cronin and Richard Holt discover the roots of international sport in France.

The Nine Days Queen was pronounced monarch on July 10th, 1553.

Maurice Garin won the first Tour de France, on July 19th, 1903, by a margin of almost three hours.

Gordon Marsden sees an identity of outlook between two writers generally seen as occupying opposite ends of the political spectrum in Britain.