History Today

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

Re-opening of the National Museum.

Monks and nuns living together: not a cause for scandal but, as Barbara Mitchell explains, an intriguing window onto the variety of monastic life - under the aegis of remarkable abbesses - before the Conquest.