History Today

Paul Brassley puts MAFF's policy towards Foot and Mouth Disease into historical perspective.

Tom Griffiths continues our series on History and the Environment, travelling into the longue durée of the Australian past.

In 1945 Tito wrote. ‘We mean to make Yugoslavia both democratic and independent’. How was this possible, asks Basil Davidson, for a war-torn Communist country in a world of super-powers?

Ron Noon explains the birth and examines the impact of a potent symbol of free enterprise.

David Dean looks at an Ontario exhibition presenting a new image of the Bard.

Daniel Snowman meets the historian of modern Ireland and biographer of Yeats.

Matthew Hughes on new evidence on the 1961 death of the UN Secretary-General.

Rosalind D’Eugenio reviews 300 years of academic history.

Anthony Fletcher outlines the Victoria County History's exciting plans for a new century.

W.A. Coupe explores the polarised opinions aroused by the 'Iron Chancellor', as revealed in the German press.