History Today

Bibles and Dummy Rifles: The Boys' Brigade

Victor Bailey look at the movement that began on the evening of October 4th, 1883, when a young Glasgow Sunday School teacher, William Smith, opened the doors of his Free Church Mission Hall for the first meeting of a voluntary, uniformed youth organisation concerned with the Christian development of adolescent boys.

Winning the War

A new booklet on the Ministry of Information and its wartime messages to the British public.

Faction at the Early Stuart Court

In the third of our series of articles on faction, Kevin Sharpe shows how, in the early 17th century, the monopoly of patronage by a court favourite distorted the pattern of politics in council, court and parliament.

The Soviet Union

Roger Pethybridge continues our series on the Post-War reconstruction of Europe.