History Today

Damien Gregory's new history for the new Europe

Conrad Russell asks if England has ever had a revolution.

The British Medical Journal is 150 years old this autumn and has witnessed in its time a kaleidoscope of changing attitudes towards medicines, their ethics and efficiency. Peter Bartrip looks at its campaign against patent medicines at the turn of the century and the ambiguities of attitudes in the medical profession it reveals.

What would Europe (and Britain) have looked like if Hitler had won the war? Michael Burleigh unveils a fascinating, if chilling panorama of megalomaniac architecture and social engineering.

Penelope Johnston on an early-19th century story of slavery and Canadian multicultural policy

The brutal war to maintain white supremacy in what is now Zimbabwe eventually led to the rule of Robert Mugabe.

Ann Hills examines a new investment in the South Pennines to save an ancient horse delivery network.

Damien Gregory finds new clues to the missing Roman legions

Embittered Huguenot whose policies went hand in hand with repression of Catholics in William III’s Ireland or enlightened instigator of a unique French enclave which contributed to the 18th-century Ascendancy? In the summer which sees the tercentenary of the Battle of the Boyne, John Stocks Powell looks at the fortunes of Portarlington and its founding father.

Marika Sherwood on race and exploitation at sea.