History Today

What would Europe (and Britain) have looked like if Hitler had won the war? Michael Burleigh unveils a fascinating, if chilling panorama of megalomaniac architecture and social engineering.

Penelope Johnston on an early-19th century story of slavery and Canadian multicultural policy

Paul Moorcraft looks at the war to maintain white supremacy in what is now Zimbabwe, a hundred years after Cecil Rhodes carved out a British colony.

Ann Hills examines a new investment in the South Pennines to save an ancient horse delivery network.

Damien Gregory finds new clues to the missing Roman legions

Embittered Huguenot whose policies went hand in hand with repression of Catholics in William III’s Ireland or enlightened instigator of a unique French enclave which contributed to the 18th-century Ascendancy? In the summer which sees the tercentenary of the Battle of the Boyne, John Stocks Powell looks at the fortunes of Portarlington and its founding father.

Marika Sherwood on race and exploitation at sea.

M.R.D. Foot reveals the plans that were hatched fifty years ago to harry a would-be Nazi occupation of Britain by guerilla warfare.

Richard Cavendish gives a snapshot of the work of the Cinema Theatre Association

The murder of two French envoys on the river Po in the summer of 1541 not only provoked a diplomatic whodunnit round the courts of Europe, but also throws light on attitudes to diplomacy in the Renaissance world. Linda and Marsha Frey tell the story and its implications.