History Today

Elisabeth Perry explains why US women did not breakthrough in politics between the wars, despite having won the vote.

Did past ages look upon babies and their needs with less than starry eyes? Nicholas Tucker sifts the evidence from the cradle in history.

Margaret Jervis on a new exhibition at the British Museum on the Egyptian empire.

Anthony Pollard explains how the rivalry of two great Northern families contributed to civil war in fifteenth-century England.

Richard Eales looks at how politics and chess have mated more in history through to the present day.

An insight into how the activities of Allied crews from the ill-fated PQ-17 Arctic convoy of 1942 to wartime Russia were viewed by one of Stalin's commissars. The article is part of an agreement with the Russian history magazine, Rodina, whereby History Today will have access to and publish in English, formerly top-secret documents now being released from the Soviet archives.

Tony Aldous discusses the proposals for an enlarged Bede Museum in the North-East.

Oriental dealers Eskenazi and their new London outlet

Mark Stoyle uncovers the juvenile delinquency of the man who saved the Stuart monarchy and brought back Charles II.