Volume 52 Issue 10 October 2002

Desert Warfare

Jo Woolley and David Smurthwaite of the National Army Museum look at Desert Warfare in the Second World War and more widely.

French Connection

Philip Ziegler tells how a chance invitation to a Loire château set him en route to becoming a historical biographer.

The Black Widows of Liverpool

Angela Brabin uncovers the gruesome tale of serial murder committed by a group of women in the poorest districts of 19th-century Liverpool.

God and the Normans

David Crouch reconsiders William I and his sons as men of genuine piety – as well as soldiers.