History Today

Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska questions the reality of rationing for Britain’s Royal family during the war and after.

Set–piece contests about industrial pollution are nothing new – as Ronald Rees reveals in this tale of epic legal struggles in south Wales during the Industrial Revolution.

Gabriel Ronay looks at how Scottish sainthood got tangled up in Hungarian politics.

Richard Monte looks at the integration of Western ideas into native cultures.

Dennis Mills lauds an initiative putting local government and local history together.

Britain's first information scientist? Mark Greengrass tells the story of a remarkable 17th- century polymath and of the modern enterprise to re-categorise and evaluate, with the aid of the modern computer, his archive of knowledge.

Richard Cavendish discovers that old ships do not just die or fade away, thanks to the Maritime Trust.

Without the economic muscle of the Netherlands' largest city, William III would never have been able to stage Britain's 'Glorious Revolution' or urge European war against Louis XIV. But his relationship with Amsterdam's burghers was far from smooth, as Elizabeth Edwards outlines here.