History Today

The Nazi State: Machine or Morass?

Competing interests as much as ideology fuelled the functioning of the Third Reich, augmented by forced labour and the plunder of Occupied Europe.

Real-Time

Mark Kishlansky discusses the change for historians with the ever increasing use of computers.

The Westminster Assembly, which met from 1643-49, in a Victorian history painting by John Rogers Herbert

The Puritan War on Christmas

'Trappings of popery and rags of the beast'. Mince-pies, mummers, holly and church services all fell victim to a determined Puritan attempt to stamp out the celebration of Christmas under the Commonwealth.

Chartism

Edward Royle looks at the most relevant titles on the 19th-century working-class political movement.

In Search of Lost Time

This winter I shall be rereading A la recherche du temps perdu. It is not, I concede, everyone's idea of evening relaxation by the fire-side. But those who have come to love this sinuous masterpiece will know well the kind of delights I anticipate.

What is the History of Popular Culture? (i)

'All human life is there'. But is it - and can it be interpreted on a par with the chronicles of the great and good? Five social historians discuss the relevance of history without 'kings and things'.