In Search of Europe
Mia Rodriguez-Salgado goes in search of an idea that has puzzled people from Charlemagne to Adenauer.
History Today
Nineteenth Century Hidden Agendas
Dorothy Thompson looks at the impact of revisionism and triumphalism on tales of solidarity and struggle from the society of the Industrial Revolution.
Louis XII: Medieval King or Renaissance Monarch?
A ruler in transition - Howell Lloyd looks at the icons of power that masked the face of French kingship around 1500.
The Kaiservilla, Bad Ischl
The life and times of Austria's grand old man, the Emperor Franz Joseph, via the Kaiservilla.
Yanks-a-Million [and a half...]
Former editor of History Today Juliet Gardiner on the GIs 'over here'
Gender, Class and Nation
Leonore Davidoff on how women's history has been interwoven with debates on society and identity and its prospects for durability.
Gossip or Chronicler? Versailles and Saint-Simon
Michel Petheram assesses the importance and reliability of a courtier whose 'memoires' offer graphic vignettes of the last days of Louis XIV.
The Fabrication of Louis XIV
Peter Burke looks at how images and the image-makers made the Sun King appear as the larger-than-life 'top ruler' of 17th-century Europe.
Czech Curtains for Mozart
Kenneth Asch on Prague's memento to the great composer
The Fall of the Mighty
Douglas Johnson compares and contrasts the downfalls of Neville Chamberlain and Margaret Thatcher.