Volume: 50 Issue: 9

California became the thirty-first state of the United States on September 9th, 1850.

Barry Cunliffe tells how, aged nine, his first encounter with Roman remains in a Somerset field determined his ambition to become an archaeologist.

Henrietta Harrison sees the Boxer Movement through the eyes of an ordinary Chinese man.

Luke S.K. Kwong tells the story of the American artist who was invited to paint the portrait of the celebrated Empress Dowager of China after the Boxer Rising.

John Miller describes the state of the British kingdoms as James Stewart waits to become monarch of the entire archipelago.

Peter Furtado announces recent awards for historical writing.

David Gaimster reveals the origins and contents of the British Museum's Secretum, a hidden repository of artefacts deemed pornographic and unfit for public gaze by...

Richard Willis describes the long struggle to get teachers their own professional organisation.

September 3rd, 1900

Napoleon's forces surrendered to the British in Malta on September 5th, 1800.

Larry Gragg describes the earthquake that shattered Jamaica in 1692, and reviews the complex lessons that preachers drew from it.

Taylor Downing and Andrew Johnston seek the truth behind the legend of the Spitfire.

Patricia Cleveland-Peck on the part played by a French cafe in the Sussex Network operations during the Second World War.