Europe

Douglas Johnson examines the powerful hold Les Invalides exercises over France's historical mythology.

Richard Cavendish visits an historic mill in Derbyshire central to the Industrial Revolution.

Ann Hills on excavations in the Arctic and displays in the Tromso Museum.

What would Europe (and Britain) have looked like if Hitler had won the war? Michael Burleigh unveils a fascinating, if chilling panorama of megalomaniac architecture and social engineering.

The murder of two French envoys on the river Po in the summer of 1541 not only provoked a diplomatic whodunnit round the courts of Europe, but also throws light on attitudes to diplomacy in the Renaissance world. Linda and Marsha Frey tell the story and its implications.

During the early days of UK involvement in World War II, official British films deliberately created a particular view of the air war, perhaps distorting our perceptions of some key phases.

Andrew Fettegree looks at how the life and death of a radical religious maverick points up the tensions between individualism and order in Reformation Europe.

A look into the long-lasting links between Britain and Holland forged during the war.

Ann Hills on an institution dedicated to the history of the Red Crescent and Cross and a humanitarian approach to war.

History Today's special issue on the French Revolution's bicentenary focuses on the new ideas that are illustrating its causes and course. To open, Douglas Johnson considers the arguments about the 'Counter-Revolution' and the Terror exercising French historians of the Revolution in 1989.