History Today

W. Bruce Lincoln describes how the European Revolutions of 1848 alarmed the Russian Government so much, it sent its armies to aid the Habsburgs in Hungary.

After service in the Russo-Japanese War, writes Norman Saul, the Aurora helped to secure the Bolshevik triumph in Petrograd.

The powers of American Riflemen were underestimated by the British Government, though not, writes John Pancake, by observers in the field.

The Boers, writes R.F. Currey, made a paramount gain during the peace that followed the South African war.

Within a century, writes Sergius Yakobson, the Russians expanded over Asia from the Urals to the Pacific Ocean.

French expansion, writes Michael Langley, in North and West Africa during the nineteenth century was an impressive colonial achievement.

R.W. Davies describes the life of the other ranks in the Roman armed services, as recorded in surviving letters.

Patricia Wright describes how the French arrival upon the Upper Nile caused an international crisis.

In the late seventeenth century, writes Richard Simmons, the Quakers hoped to found in Pennsylvania and elsewhere a radical Christian commonwealth.