History Today

‘The Universities have been to this nation as the wooden horse to the Trojans’. An article by Irene Coltman Brown.

Geoffrey Parker looks at the moment when the representatives of certain provinces of the Netherlands met together to depose their lawful sovereign Philip II of Spain.

William Seymour argues here that the determination of Sir Charles Napier to uphold British interests in Sindh led to coercion and eventual war.

Gerald Strauss assess the attempts in the 1520s to ensure continued public support for the new churches.

Nicholas Goddard on the Victorians and the agricultural utilisation of sewage.

Noel Carrington recalls how he was a Witness to the Past, as the Prince of Wales toured India in 1921.

It is through reading the letters that the soldiers sent home, argues Frank Emery, that “the Victorian rank and file cease to be a mute and anonymous body of men marching past in scarlet or khaki columns.”

J.B. Donnelly looks at the many pictures carried off from Vienna by the victorious Italians, including the magnificent Madonna of the Orange Grove by Cima da Conegliano.

'Bold is the man that dare engage For Piety in such an age' wrote a seventeenth-century poet. Yet, as Antonia Fraser shows here, the aristocratic Puritan, Mary Rich, sought to serve God as much by her tenacious moral example as by her prayers.

Richard Mullen looks back on the wedding of Prince Albert Edward to Princess Alexandra of Denmark.