History Today

The French writer died on 29 September 1902.

Terence Zuber argues that the German army’s rigid plan for a quick victory in France in 1914 was a postwar fabrication.

Anne Summers looks at the status of one of the few professions open to women.

Roy Porter discusses the life of the 18th-century essayist and critic.

The great majority of women's lives were changed by the American Revolution: they were increasingly drawn into the political debate – as household producers and consumers, and as wives and mothers.

John Stuart Mill saw the enfranchisement of women as 'the most important of all political movements' on the road to the equality of the sexes.

David Englander describes the 1834 events and their relevance for the future of labour.

Paul Dukes analyses a number of books on the conflict.

In Europe Philhellenism – the romantic desire arising from admiration of ancient Greece to further understanding of all things Greek – had its origins in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century.

Keith M. Brown on the Scottish nobility in the early modern period.