History Today

Joad Raymond on a previously unpublished insight into the personality and projection of 'Lord Oliver' during Britain's unique 1650s experience.

With Hong Kong returning to Chinese rule, Roger Thompson looks at when the colony influenced reformers who tried to bring the ballot box to the Middle Kingdom.

Paul Preston amplifies recent claims that Franco offered safe havens to fugitive Nazis

The son of a fisherman's revolt against Spanish taxes on fruit in Naples, on 7 July 1647, was part of a wider challenge to Spanish overlordship throughout the Habsburg domains.

Tony Aldous investigates the story behind Grey Street in Newcastle upon Tyne

Denise Silvester-Carr investigates the restoration of Hardwick Hall, home of Bess of Hardwick.

Paul Goalen on questions of national identity in the classroom.

On 5 June 1647, the New Model Army made a formal resolution not to disband until all the Army's grievances had been redressed.

At Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in June 1897, pride in the British Empire seemed at its zenith, but in a fresh look at the commemorative poems of Rudyard Kipling, Denis Judd finds the poet pointing to cracks in the imperial façade.