History Today

Melanie Billings-Yun investigates President Eisenhower's motives and methods in the spring of 1954, when French collapse in Indochina brought pressures for direct American intervention against Communism.

Awkward cousins - Nigel Aston traces the response of the House of Orleans to the vicissitudes of the French throne and revolution

Jeffrey Richards looks at a stage where Victorian theatre attained its apogee

Macdonald Daly and Gordon Riddell look back and reflect on the changes in public libraries

Alison Brown evaluates the life and scholarship of the great German historian of Renaissance Italy and his seminal influence on Western cultural history.

Julian Mann observes excavations of the Stuart garden at Kirby Hall.

Peter Bowron looks into excavations found at a Middle Ages hospital in Scotland.

Richard Cavendish explores some Roman artefacts.

Stranger than fiction - Roy Foster explores the metamorphosis of a stiff-upper-lip Boy's Own novelist into a Sinn Fein martyr.