The Wars of the Three Kingdoms
Jane Ohlmeyer argues that the English Civil War was just one of an interlocking set of conflicts that encompassed the British Isles in the mid-seventeenth century
History Today
Internet History
The latest multimedia innovations and their usefulness to historians.
A Taste of Ashes
Jay Winter describes the mixed emotions of combatants and non-combatants at the moment the Great War ended.
The Commonwealth in Korea
Brian Catchpole remembers the sufferings and heroism of the Commonwealth Division in the first major conflict of the Cold War.
The First WH Smith Railway Bookstall
Seeing the potential of the new technology, William Henry Smith opened his first railway bookstall on 1 November 1848.
David Cannadine
Daniel Snowman writes about the new Director of the Institute of Historical Research and author of books on aristocracy, class and the monarchy.
The Allies enter Damascus
October 1st, 1918
The Sherborne Missal: Creating a National Treasure
The British Library buys one of the most important manuscripts in England.
‘You Too Can Be Like Us’ - Selling The Marshall Plan
David Ellwood shows how the US fought for the people of Europe with an Americanised vision of their future.
The Historical Roots of New Labour
Kenneth O. Morgan finds that New Labour stands firmly in the mainstream of British political history.