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History Today

History Today is a monthly magazine published by History Today, Ltd. Founded in 1951, it is owned by Andy Patterson and has a circulation of roughly 30,000 subscribers. Headquarters are based in London, England.The magazine, which is geared towards teachers, students, and those with an interest in history, publishes essays written by some leading history scholars covering myriad periods, regions, topics, and themes in history. It is available in print and online.The print version was founded by Brendan Backen, who worked as the Minister of Information during World War II. He was also the publisher of the Financial Times. Currently, both print and online versions are published under the vision and guide of editor-in-chief, Paul Lay.History Today offers readers articles ranging from atomic medicine to the rise and fall of empires. Each essay comes with illustrations selected by picture editor Sheila Corr. The web edition includes a news digest from web editor, Kathryn Hadley.Subscribers can buy an annual subscription for either the web or print version. Web subscribers can also purchase access to articles from the publication's archives dating back to 1980. The magazine also has a sister publication, History Review, which is aimed at students and is published three times each year.

Articles from Vol. 60, No. 1, January

A Great Degree of Value: John Tosh Argues That Historians Should Find Ways to Teach Undergraduates the Practical Applications of Their Uniquely Insightful Discipline

Aids to Independence: A Distant Monarch, Political Factionalism, Vainglorious Commanders and the Distraction of European Enemies Helped George Washington Seal Victory in the American War of Independence, Writes Kenneth Baker, Who Explores the Conflict through Caricature and Print

A World without End: Jonathan Clark, Editor of a Major New History of the British Isles, Considers What Effect the Intellectual Currents of Our Own Time Have Had on the Way Historians Write

Broadsides against Boney: Mark Bryant Admires a Russian Artist Whose Lampoons of Napoleon Inspired Some Notable British Caricaturists

Drink: The British Disease? Britain Has Had a Long and Sometimes Problematic Relationship with Alcohol. James Nicholls Looks Back over Five Centuries to Examine the Many, Often Unsuccessful, Attempts to Reform the Nation's Drinking Habits

Dr Trelawney's Cabinet of Historical Curiosities: This Month's Subject: Sleep

From the Editor

Guns, Gales and God: Elizabeth I's 'Merchant Navy': Ian Friel Argues That Popular Ideas of the Nature of Elizabethan Seapower Are Distorted by Concentration on Big Names and Major Events. Elizabethan England's Emergence on to the World Stage Owed Much More to Merchant Ships and Common Seamen Than We Might Think

January 13th, 1935: The Saar Plebiscite

January 1st, 1660: Samuel Pepys Begins His Diary

January 7th, 1610: Galileo Observes the Satellites of Jupiter

Lost Pioneers of Science: Medieval Scholars Were the First to Make the Connection between Maths and Science and Anticipated the Discovery of Inertia Long before Newton. So Why Have Their Discoveries Been Forgotten

Monitoring MI5

More Than a 'Mere Herodotolater': Paul Cartledge Visits the Archive of History Today to Retrieve a Critical Appraisal of the Greek Proto-Historian Herodotus by the Inimitable Oxford Don Russell Meiggs, First Published in 1957

Murder on the Metro: In the Years Leading Up to the Second World War, France Was Riven by Political Division as Extremes of Left and Right Vied for Power. Annette Finley-Croswhite and Gayle K. Brunelle Tell the Tragic and Mysterious Story of Laetitia Toureaux, a Young Woman Swept Up in the Violent Passions of the Time

New World Overtures: Opera Has Flourished in the United States. but How Did This Supposedly 'Elite' Art Form Become So Deep-Rooted in a Nation Devoted to Popular Culture and Dedicated to the Proposition That All Men Are Created Equal? Daniel Snowman Explains

No Offence, Your Majesty: Sedition Could Cost You Your Life in Tudor England, but by the 18th Century the Monarch Was Fair Game

Shades of Grey: Following the Controversy Unleashed by the Appearance of BNP Leader Nick Griffin on BBC's Question Time, Gavin Schaffer Explores the Long-Running Tensions within the Corporation over Race Relations

The Old Corruption: The Recent Scandal over MPs' Expenses Would Not Have Raised an Eyebrow in the 18th Century When Bribery Was Rife and Rigged Elections Common. Trevor Fisher Looks into That System and the Slow Path to Reform