History Today

Pictures worth a thousand words - William Coupe traces, via cartoons, the changes in attitudes and public opinion in the Kaiser's Germany towards the First World War.

Paul K. Martin with an eyewitness account of Barcelona's rival Olympics of 1936.

By the late 1920s, Stalin and the Soviet Union seemed on the road to totalitarianism. Did the system spawn a monster – or a monster the system? 

Roderick Phillips considers if marriages were ever made in heaven.

Ann Hills uncovers a shrine to Victorian photography under threat.

John Coutts delves into the undergrowth of Victorian life and death in North London.

A music hall reprise by Michael Leech

K.N. Chaudhuri concludes our series with an assessment of how valid a tool Marxism (and other -isms) is for interpreting pre-colonial societies in and around the Indian Ocean.