History Today

Montgomery had five months to mastermind the Allied D-Day landings - and give the troops faith in their battle.

Conrad Russell finds that it is easier to understand why sheer frustration may have driven Charles to fight than to understand why the English gentry might have wanted to make a revolution against him.

In Reading History, Peter Burke examines various reassessments of the Italian Renaissance.

James Dormon continues our America and the Americas series with a look at the growth of a group of 17th-century settlers in Nova Scotia.

Mildred Budny gauges the scale and achievement of 11th-century art.

Paul Dukes urges the need to widen our vision of the past by adopting the perspective of world history.

John Grigg questions whether D-Day could have taken place earlier and, instead, did it drag out the course of the war?

Geoffrey Warner looks at the reasons for the delay in opening a second Allied Front.