History Today

Ralph Harrington looks at the paranoias that railway travel stirred up as it spread across the 19th century.

How the Livery companies of London prepare to show they are ready for the millennium

Tim Knox looks at how the explosion of interest in all things Chinese in 18th-century Britain found a centrepiece in the royal gardens of George III.

E. Hall looks at the methods used in ancient Greece to court public opinion in the light of the modern media and messages of democratic politics today.

Were the 'barbarians' who shored up Rome's armies and frontiers the empire's salvation or doom?

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.