History Today

In Paris in the 1730s, a group of printing apprentices tortured and ritually killed all the cats they could find. What does this macabre story tell us about the culture and society of eighteenth-century France?

The European images of Argentina are complex, and mirror profound debates about nationalism and universalism, popular and elite culture.

David Harvey explores the most influential titles on women in Ancient Greece.

Juliet Gardiner introduces a series of articles commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of the count of Nassau who led the rebellion of the Netherlands.

T.P. Wiseman applauds those historians who restlessly question orthodoxies and received facts.

'America has not come to terms with its own history ... and regards Latin American nationalism as a conspiracy against its inevitable and popular domination of the western hemisphere.

Mildred Budny provides some observations on the Bayeux Tapestry

The activities and success of the Resistance movement in France from 1940-1944 is examined by Roderick Kedward.

Montgomery had five months to mastermind the Allied D-Day landings - and give the troops faith in their battle.

Conrad Russell finds that it is easier to understand why sheer frustration may have driven Charles to fight than to understand why the English gentry might have wanted to make a revolution against him.