Volume: 32 Issue: 4

The poet Rabindranath Tagore died on August 7th, 1941. Hugh Tinker charts the life of the man who 'was, perhaps, India's greatest son in modern times'.

This article by Heather Norris and Roger Kain illustrates some of the ways in which increasingly elaborate methods of town fortification affected the nature of urban...

From the Restoration in 1660 until 1714, England was intermittently at war with first the Dutch and then the French - and it became imperative, argues Howard...

Jonathon Riley-Smith explores the historiography of the Crusades.

Brian Powell remembers the Emeritus Professor of Japanese Studies and his skill in bringing the history of the Far East to a Western audience.

'Now the door has opened.../ ... none shall be turned away/ from the shore of this vast sea of humanity/that is India', wrote Tagore, the poet and cultural...

A short editorial by Michael Trend.

Introductory article on the upcoming Festival of India in Britain.

In this article Thomas Maxwell, one of the organisers of the exhibition and co-author of the catalogue, In the Image of Man: The Indian perception of the Universe...

Famous Books in the History of Science: an exhibition at the British Library. The Wellcome Museum of the History of Medicine: at The Science Museum at South...

In the past, during times of high unemployment, schemes of public works were often developed. This was not only because of the mounting costs of relief, but also...