History Today

Janet Vitmayer previews the new Music Gallery at the Horniman which is due to open this winter.

Michael Paris describes the film record of the North African victory, and how the footage represents a tour de force in terms of wartime documentary and national effort.

With the final collapse of the Soviet Union on December 1st, 1991, and with the new openness promised by Mikhail Gorbachev well under way, the release to historians of files, photographs and film strips held in the Soviet state archives seemed a very real possibility.

David Ellwood argues that the attempts of British politicians to copy an American ‘role model’ are likely to fail.

Victor Ambrus sketches a colourful picture of his route to the Time Team.

Panikos Panayi explores the conditions endured by the people of Osnabrück between 1929 and 1949.

John Lucas extols the pioneers who helped develop the parachute, two centuries ago.

Susan-Mary Grant looks at Florence Nightingale’s influence on medical care in the Crimea and the US Civil War.

Chris Wickham looks back upon the life of Rodney Hilton, medieval historian and co-founder of Past and Present.

Albert Axell recalls the era of the Japanese Kamikaze pilots.