Volume 63 Issue 9 September 2013

Hollywood Accused

Roger Hudson tells the story behind a gathering of glamorous movie stars in Washington DC in October 1947.

California Dreaming

Owen Matthews revisits two articles, one of them from the earliest days of History Today, on Russia’s American empire.

Oxford Votes to Save its Bacon

The Oxford by-election of October 1938 became a referendum on the Munich Agreement of the previous month. As such it was watched closely by Roosevelt, Mussolini and Hitler. Christopher Farman describes the event.