History Today

John Beckett investigates the thorny, and sometimes illogical, issue of what makes a City.

In the second article in the Picturing History series, Sander Gilman reflects on images of the First World War and the photographs of Alan Cohen.

Martyn Housden tries to unravel what Hitler really meant when he talked about living space for the German people.

Martin Roberts regrets lost opportunities in the recent reform of A-level syllabuses

Mark Goldie reveals some vivid insights into London life before and during the Glorious Revolution, from a little-known contemporary of Pepys.

David Hockney explains how a question about some Ingres drawings led to a whole new theory of Western Art

Isabel de Madariaga looks at the personality and achievement of the controversial Empress of Russia.

Kate Greenaway, 'the uncrowned queen of the golden age of children's book illustration', died of cancer, aged fifty-four, on November 6th, 1901.

The first Christian missionary to the country, Francis Xavier, departed from Japan on November 21st, 1551, having made perhaps some 2,000 converts.