History Today

John M. MacKenzie looks at a legendary railway station.

'A life of action and constant fidelity to a set of ideas': Max Beloff takes a fresh look at the career of Leo Amery with the publication of the latter's second volume of diaries – a man by no means the stereotype of an inter-war Conservative politician.

Will glasnost affect the view of non-Russian history in the Soviet Union? Thomas Prymak looks at Michael Hrushevsky, Ukrainian historian and nationalist whose reputation and life mirrored the ebb and flow in the fortunes of ‘Kievan Rus’.

The restoration of Sheffield’s famous cutlery industry and the historic Globe works

Steven Ellis considers how the new history of early modern Britain is becoming less Anglocentric.

Rex Cathcart tells the tale of the strange Christmas and holiday custom that left teachers two or three hundred years ago risking life and limb.

The search for the tomb of Samuel de Champlain, the founder of New France

David Lowenthal explores Australian history

Alfred the Great was not the only one to be beset by Norseman – Simon Coupland and Janet Nelson re-interpret their impact on the mainland of 9th-century Europe.

Richard Cavendish visits an organisation dedicated to preserving the memory of Oliver Cromwell.