Volume: 52 Issue: 11

Pope Boniface VIII issued the papal bull Unam Sanctam, the most famous papal document of the Middle Ages, on November 18th, 1302.

As Gibraltar conducts a referendum on its future, Martin Murphy shows the degree to which its status was determined by rivalries between the 18th-century Great Powers...

Jonathan Wright looks at the career of the statesman who might have steered Germany safely through the Weimar era.

Peter Furtado highlights the recent achievement of historian Anthony Grafton.

Judith Knelman uses correspondence columns to illuminate changing views on marriage in the second half of the nineteenth century.

As the Museum of London launches its new Prehistory Gallery, its recently appointed Director, Jack Lohman, gives us his perspective on the challenges of bringing the...

John Klier reviews Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s recent venture into the history of his native country.

Austin Woolrych reflects on how historians’ approaches to the events of 1640-60 have been changing over the half century that he has been working on the period.

Twelve years after the first stone of the new building was laid, the state opening of the new Houses of Parliament took place on November 11th, 1852.

Louise Curth, Gareth Shaw and Andrew Alexander explain how the British supermarket was born.

Colin Jones discusses the art and artifice of the leading mistress of Louis XV.

Taylor Downing recalls the BBC series The Great War.

Anubha Charan reports on the latest findings from the Gulf of Cambay.

Andrew Cook relates the story of Sidney Reilly - the inspiration behind James Bond.

November 13th, 1002

Michael Rosenthal and Martin Myrone look beyond the traditional view of Gainsborough and argue for a view of the painter beyond that of society portraitist, as a...

T.A. Jenkins discusses the political career of the Iron Duke.