History Today

Bernice Archer opens our new series with an account of the intriguing hidden messages stitched into Red Cross quilts by British women POWs of the Japanese.

The advance party reached their final destination on July 24th, 1847.

Christopher Harvie brings into the light a little-known pioneer of European federalism

Richard Hodges unites oral tradition and archaeological evidence to reconstruct the story of the Dark Age destruction of an Italian monastery

James M. Brophy describes how the Carnival in 19th-century Cologne held a subversive hidden agenda of protest against Prussian overlordship.

Ivor Wynne Jones on how a dusty garage in Cairo was once the unlikely setting for keeping up British morale with 'Music for All'.

Richard Cavendish charts the life and work of Edmund Burke, who died on July 9th, 1797.

Russell Chamberlin looks at the renaissance of Bolivia's Jesuit mission

Joad Raymond on a previously unpublished insight into the personality and projection of 'Lord Oliver' during Britain's unique 1650s experience.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