History Today

Adrian Mourby shows that the nightmare scenario can be both dire warning and escapist fantasy.

Stalin's security chief Lavrenti Beria was executed on December 23rd, 1953.

An introduction by Bob Scribner to our November series on Martin Luther.

Margarette Lincoln and Colin White debate the significance of a recently discovered cache of letters from Frances Nelson to her husband’s prize agent written at the time of the collapse of her marriage to Britain’s greatest naval hero.

Christopher Follett describes the St George restoration project.

Mark Steel, stand-up comedian and presenter of history on television and radio, describes how punk rock helped politicise a generation, and whet his own appetite for enquiring about the past.

Gabriel Fawcett investigates how the Germans commemorate the losses they sustained in the First and Second World Wars.

Jeremy Black calls for a more wide-ranging, inclusive approach to the history of warfare.

Samantha Mattila reports on the discovery of valuable new additions to Sydney’s rock art.

Nicholas J. Saunders explores the ways in which humans make art from objects of death, in conflicts spanning the Napoleonic to Bosnian Wars.