History Today

Ivor Wynne Jones on how a dusty garage in Cairo was once the unlikely setting for keeping up British morale with 'Music for All'.

Richard Cavendish charts the life and work of Edmund Burke, who died on July 9th, 1797.

Russell Chamberlin looks at the renaissance of Bolivia's Jesuit mission

Joad Raymond on a previously unpublished insight into the personality and projection of 'Lord Oliver' during Britain's unique 1650s experience.

With Hong Kong returning to Chinese rule, Roger Thompson looks at when the colony influenced reformers who tried to bring the ballot box to the Middle Kingdom.

Paul Preston amplifies recent claims that Franco offered safe havens to fugitive Nazis

The son of a fisherman's revolt against Spanish taxes on fruit in Naples, on 7 July 1647, was part of a wider challenge to Spanish overlordship throughout the Habsburg domains.

Tony Aldous investigates the story behind Grey Street in Newcastle upon Tyne

Denise Silvester-Carr investigates the restoration of Hardwick Hall, home of Bess of Hardwick.

Paul Goalen on questions of national identity in the classroom.