Volume: 47 Issue: 10

Daryl Best on use and abuse in Australia's environmental history.

The Soviet Union is now history but what do the ordinary people who lived through its last decades remember about it and what verdict do they give? Per Manson...

‘Bedlam’ has become a by-word for a wild and crazy place, but what is the historical reality behind a distinguished London institution? Roy Porter offers an...

Angela Morgan highlights the new threat to Newstead Abbey, Byron's former home.

October 5th, 1497

Tony Aldous discovers a secret pocket of historic mills and warehouses in the Bow Creek area of London.

'Our revels now are ended...'

Michael Leech on the efforts to save and excavate the site of the original Globe Theatre in London.

Alexander Bely remembers the events of October 26th, 1497.

Robert Pearce gives us a view of George Orwell for the 1990s

Richard Cavendish visits Penshurst Place, home to the Sidney and Shelley families.

October 13th, 1947

‘Paris is worth a Mass’ ‘a chicken in the pot’ sayings that sent Henri IV down in French history as a very human (and quotable) monarch. But how did subsequent...

The last years of Charles II saw London a hotbed of political and religious conflict. Exploiting it, with powerful backers at court, was a ‘hit squad’ whose...