History Today

Alistair Goldsmith describes how Glasgow's police force endeavoured to preserve the city's standing as it played host to a series of international set-pieces.

The contribution of the witnesses from the Battle of Algiers to the debate on contemporary history.

‘Carthage must be destroyed’ - words from Cato the Elder to seal the Punic city’s fate in its epic struggle with Ancient Rome. But what was its religion and society like?

Lev Razgon's unique and chilling encounter with one of Stalin's mass murderers.

Peter Cotgreave explains how modern scientists can use their predecessors' data.

James Walvin on how tea, sugar and tobacco hooked Britons into a fondness for the fruits of imperial expansion.

Fools' gold, Dr Faustus - traditional images of a Renaissance black art. But was there more to it than that? Zbigniew Szydlo and Richard Brzezinski offer an intriguing rehabilitation.

Brian Winston casts a critical eye over Leni Riefenstahl's cinematic paean to Nazi aesthetics.

Penny Johnston introduces the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, Maryland.

Michael Leech celebrates the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers.