History Today

A music hall reprise by Michael Leech

K.N. Chaudhuri concludes our series with an assessment of how valid a tool Marxism (and other -isms) is for interpreting pre-colonial societies in and around the Indian Ocean.

Ian Fitzgerald on an appeal aimed to save Croatia's historical past

Nicholas Mirzoeff chronicles the struggle of deaf people for recognition and identity over the past 200 years.

Highbrow or lowbrow? James Gilbert looks at the competing visions of American civilisation on offer at Chicago's fin de siécle Exposition of 1893.

Colin Richmond analyses the part played by the written (and spoken) word in shoring up popular allegiances to the rival dynasties

Ian Bradley looks at what qualified as family favourites in the last decade of the nineteenth century.

When the Japanese invaded Manchuria in 1931, resistance came not from the Chinese government, but from plucky local groups who waged guerrilla war, Anthony Coogan uncovers their little-known story and explains why it remained so.