History Today

David M. Wilson, former director of the British Museum, describes the founding of the famous institution.

Michael Paris describes the film record of the North African victory, and how the footage represents a tour de force in terms of wartime documentary and national effort.

Neil Faulkner sees the destruction of Jerusalem and fall of Masada in the 1st century as the result of a millenarian movement that sought to escape the injustices of an evil empire.

David Crouch reconsiders William I and his sons as men of genuine piety – as well as soldiers.

Britain's first atomic bomb was detonated on 3 October 1952.

Janet Vitmayer previews the new Music Gallery at the Horniman which is due to open this winter.

With the final collapse of the Soviet Union on December 1st, 1991, and with the new openness promised by Mikhail Gorbachev well under way, the release to historians of files, photographs and film strips held in the Soviet state archives seemed a very real possibility.

David Ellwood argues that the attempts of British politicians to copy an American ‘role model’ are likely to fail.

Victor Ambrus sketches a colourful picture of his route to the Time Team.

Panikos Panayi explores the conditions endured by the people of Osnabrück between 1929 and 1949.