History Today

In the 1920s and 30s the wireless transformed British politics - particularly at elections - as vote-seeking politicians had to adapt their style to the demands of a mass firesde audience.

David Reynolds looks at the publications charting the American Isolationist policy since 1776.

Brian Manning continues the study of the tumultuous period leading to the English Civil War.

The first of three distinguished historians at the centre of current debates, John Morrill offers his own personal conviction about the nature of the greatest of all political upheavals in our history.

Lord Elgin 'acquired' more than 170 crates of ancient marbles from Greece. He always maintained that his motive was a disinterested wish to preserve these treasures. But, as John Gould discovered, his letters reveal a rather different story...

Maurice Keen discusses how Heralds' secular, learned expertise developed.

David Underdown looks back to the Tudor age in discussing the upheavals of the mid-17th century.

John Gould argues for the return of national treasures ... while Malcolm McLeod expresses reservations ...

Irene Coltman Brown focusses on a staunch 17th-century republican prepared to die for his beliefs.

Arthur Marwick teaches some history lessons from the Open University.