Most Recent Articles from History Today

• From the editor.(Editorial) 

  History Today's mission is a simple one: to bring the best historical scholarship to the widest possible public. Our new look, inspired in part...

  10/01/09 by Lay, Paul · More from publication

• The best of both worlds: India's rulers demonstrated what power they had by adopting the crafts of their conquerors--first the Mughals, then the British. Corinne Julius looks at the background to a new exhibition of dazzling artefacts.(History Matters) 

  There are two prominent images of the maharajas in the popular imagination: the first, an ornately dressed, exotic, turbanned figure, clothed in...

  10/01/09 by Julius, Corinne · More from publication

• How to keep your crown: George V retained his throne by learning a lesson ignored by most of his European contemporaries--relinquish all power.(History Matters) 

  In May 1910 seven kings (of Belgium, Greece, Norway, Spain, Bulgaria, Denmark and Portugal), one emperor (of Germany) and some 30 princes and...

  10/01/09 by Carter, Miranda · More from publication

• King Richard I and his mother.(BIFF)(Cartoon) 

  WAS THAT THE DOOR? YOU GET IT--I'VE JUST COME BACK FROM A CRUSADE. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

  10/01/09 · More from publication

• Scottish files go public.(History as it happens)(Brief article) 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The archive of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Canmore, opens its files to...

  10/01/09 · More from publication

• Mozart's mysterious death.(History as it happens)(Brief article) 

  A Dutch study has a new theory on the great composer's premature demise. www.historytoday.com/news-mozart

  10/01/09 · More from publication

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