What’s Wrong with Television History?
As a new channel dedicated to history opens up in the UK, Tom Stearn excoriates current fashion and points the way to a more historical past on TV.
History Today
When Hell came to Halifax
Howard Baker explains how the chance convergence of two vessels produced tragedy and disaster.
The 1902 Education Act
Kevin Manton regrets the political decision to remove direct democratic control over education a hundred years ago.
The Forty-Seven Ronin Incident
On 14 December 1702, a band of samurai avenged the death of their master.
Contracting Out: Administrative Privatisation in the Reign of James I
Conrad Russell looks at the perks and pitfalls of public office-holding in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.
Afghanistan and Gladstone's Moral Foreign Policy
Roland Quinault discusses Gladstone’s view of the Second Afghan War both in opposition and during his premiership.
Aztecs: A New Perspective
John M.D. Pohl reviews recent scholarship about the empire swept away by Cortes.
Madame Tussaud and her Waxworks
Pamela Pilbeam celebrates the bicentenary of the arrival of Madame Tussaud's waxworks in Britain.
Lord Aberdeen Becomes Prime Minister
George Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, became Prime Minister on December 19th, 1852.
Hitler’s History Films
David Welch looks at the dramatisation of Führerprinzip in the Nazi cinema, and how history films were used to propagate themes of anti-parliamentarianism and the concept of an individual leader of genius.