History Today

Crime and the 60s at the Open University

Omer Bartov traces the impact of people's armies from Napoleon to the First World War and beyond.

Robert Thorne on when, and if, Britain’s modern buildings should be listed as historic.

Richard Cavendish muses on the 'stuffed' of history in the animal kingdom in Bodmin Moor.

Glenn Richardson profiles the French king's relationship with Henry VIII and the cultural PR and diplomacy that went with it.

How did Regency period ideas about science and electricity influence Mary Shelley's tale of an infamous creation. Frank A.J.L. James and J.V. Field explain.

Richard Shone looks at the foray into portraiture of a leading British artist and reflects on the tensions of painter-patron relations in the cultural climate of 1930s Britain.

How did Hitler's armies try and persuade the occupied populations of the Soviet Union to live with their new regime? British military historian John Erickson comments on wartime posters unearthed from the Russian archives.

Exploration of a new museum opening in Lausanne on the Roman settlement in the area