History Today

Annette Bingham rediscovers Roman Crete

Did America's far right plot against Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal - only to be foiled by a retired Marine Corps general? Clayton Cramer lifts the lid on an intriguing but little-known tale.

German Aerial Reconnaissance Photography of London and the Home Counties, 1939-1942.

Edward Corp revalues the contribution, as emigre statesman and trend-setting art-collector, of one of the leading Jacobites at Saint-Germain.

Richard Rathbone explains how a meeting in Manchester 50 years ago helped lay the vision for Pan-Africanism

Ann Hills assesses how the African country is protecting its past

David G. Anderson reveals an arms sale scandal in 1934 involving the British Government

Richard Cavendish breathes 18th-century elegance into the Thomas Gainsborough Musuem

Graham Norton looks at dilapidated forts and castles in West Africa