History Today

In Europe Philhellenism – the romantic desire arising from admiration of ancient Greece to further understanding of all things Greek – had its origins in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century.

Keith M. Brown on the Scottish nobility in the early modern period.

A hundred years later, Michael Bentley looks back upon the arrival and impact of the Cambridge Modern History.

David Nicholls demonstrates that history, rather than being ‘irrelevant’, is a passport to success in the world of work.

Simon Kitson highlights the conflicting demands made on the police in postwar France.

Pamela Spencer introduces the new museum on St Helena and provides a brief insight into the history of the island on its 500th anniversary.

Paul Cartledge sees ancient Spartan society and its fierce code of honour as something still relevant today.

Robert Pearce examines the latest trends in university history.

Mike Finn looks at the Liverpool press to find out what people back home were told about conditions on the Western Front.