History Today

Allan Massie opens our special issue on Glasgow and urban history by reflecting on 'ways of seeing' the city's past and present.

A frontier land, full of restless but pitiless industrialists and business entrepreneurs red in truth and claw? Nick Morgan tries to separate myth from reality in this survey of Glasgow's Victorian and Edwardian elites.

Australians can now pinpoint the actual birthplace of their nation in the centre of modern Sydney.

A chip off the old block? Susan Ware looks over the careers of the Hollywood actress and her radical mother and finds reflections of the changing roles and attitudes of women in 20th-century America.

Oiled excavations at Tintagel

Norman Bainbridge on springtime for Tupholme Abbey

In the first two decades of the 20th century escapist fantasy was not the sole diet offered to American audiences by the emerging film industry. Steven Ross relates the mixture of social realism and biting political commentary that inspired both filmmakers and reformers to the silver screen in the Progressive era.

'Truth will conquer' - the Czech historian Frantisek Smahel traces the life and work of his 15th-century compatriot Jan Hus - whose uncompromising criticism of medieval Catholicism stirred national pride and acted as a forerunner of the Reformation.

A Rosemary O'Day on imagining you're Erasmus and ways of seeing 1450-1600.