400 years of the East India Company
Huw V. Bowen asks whether the East India Company was one of the ‘most powerful engines’ of state and empire in British history.
History Today
Why Men Joined Up for the American Civil War
Susan-Mary Grant looks at the motivations of ordinary citizens to fight their fellow Americans under either the Confederate or the Union flags.
Thailand’s Modernising Monarchs
Tony Stockwell looks behind the exotic facade to examine the role of the kings of Siam and Thailand in modernising their country.
Who Started the Korean War?
To Cold War hawks the ambitions of Stalin lay behind Kim Il Sung. Only with the opening of archives some 50 years later did Soviet responsibility for the Korean War become known.
Preserving the Pack Age
Consumer historian Robert Opie tells how he first came to recognise the value of everyday discarded things, and suggests the need for a new awareness of our recent past.
On the Map
R.I. Moore considers what the new generation of world history atlases tells us about the state of history at the start of the third millennium.
The Idea of Juvenile Crime in 19th-Century England
Heather Shore challenges the view that the 19th century was a pivotal period of change in the treatment of young offenders.
‘The Barbarians Have Not Come’ - Europe’s Twentieth Century
As we approach the true end of the century, Peter Waldron argues that those who describe Europe’s experience of the last hundred years as bleak and dark are missing part of the story.
The Dulwich Picture Gallery
Desmond Shawe-Taylor on the re-opening of the Dulwich Picture Gallery and the history of its foundation.
Oman and its Heritage
Penny Young explores the astonishingly rich archaeological heritage of Oman.