Barbarossa June 1941: Who Attacked Whom?
John Erickson reviews the recent controversies surrounding Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union.
History Today
Death of Marshal Pétain
Philippe Pétain died on 23 July 1951, aged 95.
Ancient Rome and the Pirates
Philip de Souza considers the impact of piracy on Roman economic and political life
Founding Friendship: Washington, Madison and the Creation of the American Republic
Stuart Leibiger looks at one of the most significant relationships behind the politics that produced the American Constitution.
The History of Deforestation
Michael Williams continues our series on History and the Environment by considering how long humans have been making ever-growing inroads into forests.
Growth, Digestion, Decay and Resurrection
Philip Lyndon Reynolds considers the battle between faith and reason in approaching a key subject of human existence.
James Gillray at Tate Britain
Richard Godfrey previews the Gillray exhibition at Tate Britain this summer.
The Boxers 101 Years On
Robert Bickers reviews the legacy of the 1900 uprising.
The Discovery of Second Sight in Late 17th-Century Scotland
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’.
The Mortgage Strikes
Andrew McCulloch draws attention to an important omission from a recent television reconstruction on 1940s London