History Today

Abigail Beach looks at constructing communities in the first half of the century

Cathy Mercer reconstructs a wonder of the ancient world

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto argues for a new world history for the Millennium

F.Bremer and E.Rydell examine the tricks used by preachers in 17th-century England and America to hold their audiences.

Exhibitions of African art and culture

Pierre Sorlin considers Visconti's treatment of the 19th-century Italian nobility caught up in the Risorgimento

Iain Fenlon explores how Catholic Europe's great 16th-century sea victory over the Turk was celebrated and propagandised.

Penny Johnston on a campaign to rebuild a historic Canadian church.

Andrew Boyd offers a bicentennial analysis of a key element in the culture of Protestant Ulster.

Gerard de Groot argues that exploitation of silent majority fears about 60s student protest is the key to understanding Ronald Reagan's rise to prominence in Californian politics.