History Today

The novelist D.M. Thomas describes how he gained inspiration from a black-and-white photograph of Finnish troops fighting in the Winter War.

Britain's relationship with the sea presented at the re-opened National Maritime Museum.

Paul Dukes introduces a major series on the 1890s.

Robert Garland investigates the ancient origins of the calendar and time-keeping systems of the Western world.

The Hungarian Diet issued its manifesto for independence on 14 April 1849.

Vladimir Batyuk describes how the Gorbachev reforms, and the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and Soviet Union, changed Moscow’s view of the world.

Edward Pearce compares the careers of two giants of Fleet Street, A.G. Gardiner and J.L. Garvin.

Alfio Bernabei discovers evidence of a plot to kill the Italian dictator in the early 1930s.

Beginning our new series on the history and development of policing, Clive Emsley sets the scene with a broad discussion of the origins and issues of early policing in Continental Europe.