History Today

Home movies for the Museum of the Moving Image

How Islamic was the founder of Pakistan? Akbar Ahmed offers a radical reassessment of his life and motives - and the forces that propelled his change of course.

Xinzhong Yao examines the prospects for Christianity in China based on past performance.

Crime and the 60s at the Open University

Omer Bartov traces the impact of people's armies from Napoleon to the First World War and beyond.

Robert Thorne on when, and if, Britain’s modern buildings should be listed as historic.

Richard Cavendish muses on the 'stuffed' of history in the animal kingdom in Bodmin Moor.

Glenn Richardson profiles the French king's relationship with Henry VIII and the cultural PR and diplomacy that went with it.

How did Regency period ideas about science and electricity influence Mary Shelley's tale of an infamous creation. Frank A.J.L. James and J.V. Field explain.

Richard Shone looks at the foray into portraiture of a leading British artist and reflects on the tensions of painter-patron relations in the cultural climate of 1930s Britain.