History Today

Roger Opie begins our special feature on the work ethic, including a bibliography by Patrick Joyce

Paul Cartledge surveys the historiographical treatment of the ancient Greeks.

The defeat of the Ottoman army outside the gates of Vienna in 1683 is usually regarded as the beginning of the decline of the Ottoman Empire. But how significant was it really, and for whom?

Sallie Purkis shows how oral history sources were used by schoolchildren in a Cambridge local history project.

Jeffrey Daniels wants museum-going to be a more selective activity.

Alan Sked surveys the historiographical treatment of the notoriously long-winded Habsburg politician.

Paul Thompson looks at the newest and oldest form of history.

Daniel Bertaux presents an oral history of a traditional French industry.

Douglas Johnson asks what political or military intrigues lay behind the sudden recall to power, twenty-five years ago this month, of Charles de Gaulle, the wartime leader of the Free French.