History Today

Philip Lyndon Reynolds considers the battle between faith and reason in approaching a key subject of human existence.

Richard Godfrey previews the Gillray exhibition at Tate Britain this summer.

Robert Bickers reviews the legacy of the 1900 uprising.

Michael Hunter tells how a mysterious phenomenon in the Highlands sparked a debate between scientific virtuosi and urban sceptics, in an episode that helps shed light on the vexed issue of ‘the decline of magic’.

Andrew McCulloch draws attention to an important omission from a recent television reconstruction on 1940s London

Robert A. Lambert explains the problems arising from a nature conservation success as part of our series on History and the Environmment.

Richard Cavendish explains how the Act of Settlement, signed by William III on June 12th, 1701, brought the Hanoverian dynasty to the throne.

David Johnson looks at the art of Sayers and Gillray and the role of pictorial satire in the destruction of a government.

Helen Rappaport tells the story of James Abbe, a little-known American photographer, whose images of the USSR in the 1930s record both the official and unofficial faces of the Stalinist regime.