History Today

A Taste of Ashes

Jay Winter describes the mixed emotions of combatants and non-combatants at the moment the Great War ended.

The Commonwealth in Korea

Brian Catchpole remembers the sufferings and heroism of the Commonwealth Division in the first major conflict of the Cold War.

David Cannadine

Daniel Snowman writes about the new Director of the Institute of Historical Research and author of books on aristocracy, class and the monarchy.

Ecstasy in Late Imperial Rome

Dirk Bennett describes the crowded religious calendar of pagan Rome, and the spiritual market place in which Christianity had to fight for domination.