History Today

Neil Evans on the Continent's Celtic connections

Anthony Gross traces the tenacious efforts of Henry VI's partisans to regain the throne from the House of York, and at a strange alliance that nearly paid off.

Trevor Fisher chronicles the backlash against libertarianism in art and literature in the closing years of the Victorian era.

The 1942 Allied raid on Nazi-occupied France and its lessons for D-Day.

Pictures worth a thousand words - William Coupe traces, via cartoons, the changes in attitudes and public opinion in the Kaiser's Germany towards the First World War.

Paul K. Martin with an eyewitness account of Barcelona's rival Olympics of 1936.

Did the system spawn a monster - or a monster the system? Norman Pereira re-evaluates the road to totalitarianism in the Soviet Union after the Revolution, and Stalin's part in it. 

Roderick Phillips considers if marriages were ever made in heaven.

Ann Hills uncovers a shrine to Victorian photography under threat.