History Today

Neglected by politicians, today’s British army bears an alarming resemblance to the force of 1914.

The experiences of a family of New Amsterdam stock during the early months of the American Revolutionary War

Marcella Pellegrino Sutcliffe examines the political machinations behind a visit to England in 1864 of the Italian patriot and ‘liberator’, darling of the English establishment and radicals alike.

Henry Kamen describes the apotheosis of emancipated Russian womanhood.

Success in warfare has come to depend more and more upon elaborate technical planning. Antony Brett-James describes this modern trend through the invention of new weapons and the provision and proper use of transport.

As a minister in the German cabinets of 1921-2, writes David Felix, Rathenau faced formidable problems of post-war reconstruction.

Michael Langley introduces the prophet of free colonisation in Australasia.

Geoffrey Evans describes how British and Indian forces recovered Burma from the Japanese during the Second World War.

From 1774 to 1827, writes Adrian Bury, the ordinary Englishman and woman were drawn from life by Rowlandson with incomparable industry and vigour.

The inward movement of European peoples and the southward migration of Bantu tribes supply the key to South African history and, write Edna and Frank Bradlow, to the problems that confront the country today.