Volume 59 Issue 1 January 2009

The British Museum opened on 15 January 1759.

Vietnamese troops faced little resistance when they entered Cambodia's capital on January 7th, 1979.

A power struggle in postwar Germany erupted on January 5th, 1919.

Richard Willis charts how order was brought to the medical profession by the foundation of the General Medical Council 150 years ago.

Terry Brown explores the arborial legacy of a penny-pinching duke.

A spate of recent films suggest that the scars of Germany’s history show little sign of healing. Markus Bauer reports.

Roger Moorhouse takes issue with the secular sainthood bestowed on Claus von Stauffenberg.

History Today welcomes its seventh Editor to the magazine.