History Today

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto argues for a new world history for the Millennium

F.Bremer and E.Rydell examine the tricks used by preachers in 17th-century England and America to hold their audiences.

Exhibitions of African art and culture

Pierre Sorlin considers Visconti's treatment of the 19th-century Italian nobility caught up in the Risorgimento

Iain Fenlon explores how Catholic Europe's great 16th-century sea victory over the Turk was celebrated and propagandised.

Penny Johnston on a campaign to rebuild a historic Canadian church.

Andrew Boyd offers a bicentennial analysis of a key element in the culture of Protestant Ulster.

Gerard de Groot argues that exploitation of silent majority fears about 60s student protest is the key to understanding Ronald Reagan's rise to prominence in Californian politics.

Christopher Innocent on ancient Australian burial sites.

Larry Gragg recounts the attempts of a younger son to shake off his reputation in 17th-century Barbados.