The Resistance in France
The activities and success of the Resistance movement in France from 1940-1944 is examined by Roderick Kedward.
The activities and success of the Resistance movement in France from 1940-1944 is examined by Roderick Kedward.
John Grigg questions whether D-Day could have taken place earlier and, instead, did it drag out the course of the war?
Anthony Wright looks at the impact on socialism and society in the last 100 years of Fabianism.
Jorvik, the Viking-age predecessor of modern York, has in recent years, been revealed by archaeologists in astonishing detail. A new underground Viking centre in the city has enabled the excavated evidence to be displayed where it was found, accompanied by an innovative full-size reconstruction of a complete Viking-age neighbourhood.
Ian R. Smith explores the many titles covering the Boer War.
A number of eminent historians discuss what is history and how is a national history constructed.
'Compare the wealth and refinement of cities such as Mexico... in the middle of the eighteenth century, with the austere simplicity, verging on poverty, of... Philadelphia, a misleading splendour; what was dawn for the United States was twilight for Latin America...' Octavio Paz
The Duke of Wellington proved a gift to the cartoonists of 'Punch' - he was a figure the magazine's readership would recognise, and he did not look unlike Mr Punch himself.
The trade guilds of Venice, explains Richard Mackenney, were organisations with a surprising amount of political and economic power in the patrician Renaissance city.
David Dutton explores the twilight years of the British statesman following the 1906 General Election.