History Today

Tony Aldous introduces Sir Neil Cossons, the new chairman of English Heritage.

David Culbert on a cinematic blend of propaganda and entertainment that proved remarkably successful with US audiences during the Second World War.

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.