History Today

Taylor Downing on the effects of the Great War on Middle Eastern history.

Diarmaid MacCulloch traces the complicated route by which a modest Dutch academic with impeccable Calvinist credentials became a patron saint for anti-Calvinists both in the Netherlands and in England.

During the Commonwealth years England's navy scored a series of notable victories against the Dutch and Spanish, but the heroes of the navy were army men, not sailors. Michael Baumber scrutinises the career of the greatest general-at-sea, Robert Blake, who put new heart into the Senior Service. 

Prophet of European unity or pre-Hitler nationalist bent on wiping out Germany's Versailles humiliation? Sixty years after his death, Jonathan Wright reassesses the career and motives of Germany's leading statesman of the 1920s.

Manningham Mills, a symbol of the last century's industrial power, is now to become part of Bradford's renaissance as an exhibition at the city's Cartwright Hall in Lister Park shows.

Robert Lewis looks at the historical evidence contained within the daguerreotypes taken during the 1849 Gold Rush.

Richard Smith pays tribute to the late Peter Laslett.

Charlotte Crow examines the restoration of Southwell Workhouse, the latest project from the National Trust.

Geraint H. Jenkins examines the vicissitudes of modern Welsh history.