History Today

Colin Richmond analyses the part played by the written (and spoken) word in shoring up popular allegiances to the rival dynasties

Ian Bradley looks at what qualified as family favourites in the last decade of the nineteenth century.

When the Japanese invaded Manchuria in 1931, resistance came not from the Chinese government, but from plucky local groups who waged guerrilla war, Anthony Coogan uncovers their little-known story and explains why it remained so.

Caught between the bear and the eagle – Dennis Deletant examines how one Balkan nation with substantial minorities problems, struggled in vain to avoid being swept aside in the gathering storms of inter-war Europe.

Richard Woodall issues an alert about documents in peril.

Enlightened despots or imperial new clothes? Nicholas Henshall takes a fresh look at the realities of power in the bureaucracies and rulers of ancien regime Europe.

Richard Cavendish takes the tartan with the Scottish History Society

Sarah Jane Evans discusses historical venues and their catering habits.

An end to the old order - Clive Lee looks at the pressures and changes that marked out the 1890s as a frontier post in a settled world economy.

David Mayall chronicles the uneasy relations between gypsies and the British establishment.