History Today

Ian R. Mitchell examines the museums of East and West Germany which provide contrasting views to German history.

R.J.A.Wilson accounts for the making of Roman Britain.

An examination of an archaeological site in the Lincolnshire village of Fulbeck, by Dymphana Byrne.

A tragi-comic sequence of mutiny and kidnap marked a crucial stage in the struggle of Nationalists and Communists for the hearts and minds of China.

Sarah Jane Evans examines the first of series of archaeological excavations on the Thames at Rotherhithe.

Simon Barclay accounts for the restoration of the Beverley gate in Hull

Ronald Hutton takes a closer look at Charles II's Secret Treaty of Dover.

The equation of sound money and balanced budgets with moral probity became difficult to maintain once the high point of 'laissez-faire' had been reached in Gladstone's mid-Victorian financial policies.

Philip Collins argues that Dickens' writing reflects not only a marvellous rapport with a cross-section of Victorian society but an integration of populism with a concern for 'the raising up of those that are down.'