History Today

The creation of the town of Saltaire exemplified the works of Victorian industrialists – philanthropy with an eye to profit.

The colourful cartoon development of British national symbols provides an acute barometer to changes in 18th- and 19th-century public opinion. By Peter Mellini and Roy. T. Matthews.

After the First World War a new Europe of independent states was created from the ruins of the old empires. By 1956 these countries were locked into the Soviet system. L.P. Morris asks how could this have happened?

Paul Dukes looks at the ups and downs of the relationship between the land of the lions and that of the double-headed eagle.

Daniel Snowman meets the historian of Columbus, Barcelona, the Millennium, Truth, Civilisations, Food and the Americas.

Anna Chapman considers what lies behind the cult of an East Anglian king killed by the Vikings in 869.

Lev Anninskiy describes his encounters with censored and uncensored history in Soviet Russia.

Matthew Howells introduces History Compass, a new concept in history publishing.

Denise Silvester-Carr visits the house that proved an inspiration to many in the Arts and Crafts movement, and which opens to the public on July 16th.

Godfrey Hodgson tells of a little-known episode in which an unofficial American diplomat attempted to redraw the political map in the summer of 1914, bringing peace to Europe and development to the Third World.