History Today

Anthony D. Smith surveys the historiographical treatment of this topical subject in this month's Reading History.

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.

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

Geoffrey Finlayson discusses how Margaret Thatcher's style of Conservatism reflects the development of the Tory Party over nearly two hundred years.

Elisabeth Darby and Nicola Smith look at the impact of the death and funeral of Prince Albert, on both Queen Victoria and the nation.

David Starkey on The English Renaissance Miniature.

Tien Ju-Kang explains how, during the Mongol Yuan dynasty, the government entered into an unlikely and uneasy alliance with Chinese pirates to ensure the supply of grain to the northern capital.

Nancy Lockwood Adler considers the restructuring of the Sicilian town in the wake of the destructive earthquake of 1693.

The role of the Church in wartime has always been ambiguous. Today, with the question of nuclear weapons to the fore, churchmen are again in conflict over the moral issues involved. With this in mind, Geoffrey Best considers an earlier occasion when the Church found itself in a similar dilemma.

Roy Porter on a Scottish doctor who became the fashionable surgeon of choice in 18th century London.