History Today

Peter Burke on a pioneering historian of 'spirit of the age', who pushed back the frontiers of cultural history.

'In trying to preserve the political conditions of international life, he allowed himself to become unscrupulous' - thirty years on Eden's coup de main against Nasser seems less untimely realpolitik and more moral dilemma.

Ian Mitchell explores the Märkisches Museum devoted to the history of Berlin and the Mark Brandenburg.

'Woman's work is never done...' - a small team of women inspectors strove energetically in turn-of-the-century Britain to reduce excess hours and abuses in factory and home work.

Warriors but adaptors - the Vikings built on existing urban settlement to produce towns like York and Lincoln, prosperous and busy with domestic manufacture and international trade.

Tony Aldous observes the Newham based Passmore Edwards Museum which tells part of the story of the Great eastern railways.

Was the murder of the Count of Flanders by his own vassals divine retribution for past errors, or simply another stage in the development of a state? The chronicle of Galbert of Bruges gives a day-by-day account of the dramatic events following the assassination.

A look into a building designed by an early American architect situated in Hammerwood Park near East Grinstead in Sussex.