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‘A View of Sydney on Norfolk Island, 1792’. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. Public Domain.

Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island

J.M. Moore | Published in History Today Volume 75 Issue 1 January 2025

As convicts celebrated Queen Victoria’s birthday on remote Norfolk Island, debates raged over the purpose of punishment and the merits of Alexander Maconochi

Prime Minister Winston Churchill walks the deck of HMS Prince of Wales during the Atlantic Conference, 1941. Library of Congress. Public Domain.

How Does History Judge Prime Ministers?

History Today | Published in History Today Volume 75 Issue 2 February 2025

Political reputations are forged by actions, but the long view of history can be hard to predict.

Giovanni Segantini shows rural life being encroached upon by industrialisation, 1897. Minneapolis Institute of Art. Public Domain.

What is Social History?

History Today | Published in History Today Volume 35 Issue 3 March 1985

A new form of antiquarianism? Celebrating experience at the expense of analysis? Seven leading historians seek to define social history.