History Today

Bill Wallace looks at the mixed inheritance of democratic ideas in Mother Russia and beyond as possible auguries for the future of the regimes that have succeeded the Soviet Union.

John Springhall finds 1950s echoes in the current controversy about children and horror videos.

A 17-day political dogfight at the 1924 Democratic National Convention revealed the faultlines in American society, from prohibition to Protestantism to the shadow of the Ku Klux Klan.

A tribute to the Blackpool tower which celebrates its 100th birthday this summer.

Ann Hills investigates the findings of the British Waterways Architectural survey.

Nick Crafts looks at political factors in the chequered history of British economic performance since the high noon of mid-Victorian Britain.

David Edgerton accentuates the positive in looking at the story of British technology in the 20th century.

Theo Barker looks at how Britain innovated and kept ahead of her international competitors before the Great War.

A hundred years ago the greatest civil engineering feat of the late Victorian age linked the Irish sea with the town that had become an international symbol of modern industrialisation. Douglas Farnie traces the interaction between a waterway and the economic and industrial fortunes of the North West and its 'Cottonopolis'.