History Today

Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones explains the historical roots of the arguments surrounding the CIA following their failure to anticipate the attacks of September 11th.

Richard Cavendish explains how the Kingdom of Libya was established on December 24th, 1951.

'Frankly I am ashamed of being a Briton for the treatment we have meted out to the Boers as revealed by you and so justly condemned in your pages’ - John Burns to W. T. Stead.

Christopher Haigh reflects on the life and work of the great Tudor historian, who died in July.

John Beckett investigates the thorny, and sometimes illogical, issue of what makes a City.

Tom Griffiths continues our series on History and the Environment, travelling into the longue durée of the Australian past.

In the second article in the Picturing History series, Sander Gilman reflects on images of the First World War and the photographs of Alan Cohen.

Martyn Housden tries to unravel what Hitler really meant when he talked about living space for the German people.

Martin Roberts regrets lost opportunities in the recent reform of A-level syllabuses