History Today

David Hockney explains how a question about some Ingres drawings led to a whole new theory of Western Art

Isabel de Madariaga looks at the personality and achievement of the controversial Empress of Russia.

Kate Greenaway, 'the uncrowned queen of the golden age of children's book illustration', died of cancer, aged fifty-four, on November 6th, 1901.

The first Christian missionary to the country, Francis Xavier, departed from Japan on November 21st, 1551, having made perhaps some 2,000 converts.

The queen gave her last speech to Parliament on November 30th, 1601.

L.W. Cowie describes the wedding of Prince Arthur and Catherine of Aragon on November 14th, 1501.

Paul Preston looks at the continued interest in the 1930s conflict, the subject of a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum.

Jason Edwards takes a fresh look at attitudes to the nude in Victorian art, to coincide with Tate Britain's major exhibition on the subject opening this month.

Richard Overy argues that the lesson Hitler Drew from 1914-18 was not that a major war should be avoided, but that Germany should prepare more systematically so that, next time, she would win.