History Today

Hotman and Bodin were among those who laid down new lines of political thought in Europe, writes J.H.M. Salmon.

T.J. Brady introduces an early photographer at a Victorian front.

Bela Menczer describes the various intellectual and artistic personalities who conspired to produce the Exposition Universelle, in Paris, in 1867.

John Terraine describes how democracies evolved and tried to carry out a grand strategy from 1861-1945.

Sometimes admired, even occasionally popular; John Roberts describes how Georges Clemenceau towered over French political life for nearly half a century.

Sydney D. Bailey offers up a study in Soviet diplomacy.

Alexander Burnes met his death on November 2nd, 1841, at the hands of a furious Afghan mob. James Lunt introduces one of the most adventurous travellers of his generation.

The mining dispute of 1921, writes Patrick Renshaw, was one of the most serious industrial conflicts that Britain has faced.

The manner in which the Great War was fought after 1916, writes John Terraine, has decided the nature of the century we live in.

R.B. Chevenix Trench documents how early English naval technology attempted to warn of impending seaborne attacks.