History Today

Gordon Marsden reviews the millennium exhibition that challenges preconceptions about the European nation state.

Douglas Johnson on why French historians are still arguing about the Holocaust.

October 24th-26th, 1596

Richard Cavendish visits one of the most evocative regimental museums in the country.

Wesleyan Catholicism - a contradiction in terms? Not in the 18th century, argues Charles Goodwin.

Tony Aldgate looks at how a 60s film about a Cockney Lothario dealt with sex, censorship and angry/ cynical young men.

Edward Coleman weighs up Modern Italy's Northern League against its medieval Lombard inspiration.

Elizabeth van Houts reconstructs memories of occupation (with echoes of the 1940s) from post-Norman conquest chronicles.

Richard Hodges wanders through the medieval village of Rocca in Tuscany.

Edward Ranson on the house race that split and defined a fin-de-siecle US.