History Today

Peter Higgs looks at how a monumental Hellenistic statue sheds light on culture, religion and identity in Roman North Africa.

Louis Crompton argues that male love and military prowess went hand in hand in classical Greece.

Karl Hack on the links between dams and decolonisation and the ups and downs of Anglo-Malaysian relations.

Tony Aldous investigates the findings of researchers at Southampton University and colleagues at Amsterdam’s University academic centre into the effects of malnutrition of pregnant women on the health of their children in later life.

Cherry Barnett investigates the tiny colony of Macau located west of Hong Kong as Lisbon prepares to relinquish its title as 1994 European city of culture.

Richard Evans discusses the nature of the German Romanticism in the wake of a major new initiative on London's South Bank.