History Today

Could the Jacobites Have Won?

Jeremy Black marks the bicentenary of the '45 Rebellion by assessing how close Bonnie Prince Charlie came to making his father James III of England.

Love in a Wet Climate

Russia oldest love letter was discovered, in 1995, among medieval rubbish heaps excavated in Novgorod.

India's Divided Loyalties?

Peter Heehs looks at the Indian army who threw in their lot against the Raj and with the Japanese in the Second World War.

Wings

Michael Paris looks at pioneering 1920s film about war in the air over the Western Front, the passions it aroused and the genre it created.

On The Waterfront

Brian Neve discusses what the film that made Marlon Brando a fifties icon has to tell us about American society and politics in the McCarthy era.