History Today

Fernando Cervantes explores the conversion process from polytheistic human sacrifice to devotion to the Mother Church.

David Rooney argues that Chindit commander Orde Wingate has had his Burma campaign unfairly judged by military establishments.

Todd Gray and Mark Stoyle take a look at a map discovered in Plymouth of the sieges of the Civil War.

Michael Leech examines the new look for the London transport museum.

Ian Locke ponders on how careless we have been in the past in the wake of the Matrix-Churchill Iraq supergun affair.

Ronnie Landau looks at the latest charges of genocide over Bosnia and wonders how often history must repeat itself.

Wild Bill Hicock and wagon trains - familiar images of pioneer spirit, but a more complex and less triumphalist view of how the American frontier moved West is explained by Margaret Walsh.

Richard Ollard looks at the rise and fall of Sherborne Castle.

Barbara Schreier offers a fascinating insight into how the dress, customs and attitudes of Jewish women escaping pogroms in Eastern Europe altered as part of their assimilation as Americans.