Volume: 54 Issue: 1

Federico Guillermo Lorenz shows that those who control the present are sometimes able to control interpretations of the past.

Anubha Charan describes the arguments surrounding one of the world’s most politically explosive excavations.

Charlotte Crow introduces a new exhibition at Tate Modern which looks at the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi.

Ruth Bottigheimer argues that the survival of our best-loved fairy tales owes more to popular print tradition than to fireside story-telling passed down through the...

Roger Owen considers bell’s impact on the much maligned consul-general of Egypt.

The first-ever parliament of the Sudan was opened by the British governor-general, Sir Robert Howe, on January 1st, 1954.

Wilson Strand looks at the many attempts to open Korea to Western trade in the 19th century.

John Guy, author of a new biography of Mary, Queen of Scots, explains how working in the archives made him fascinated with sixteenth-century history.

Editor Peter Furtado looks at major prizes in history.

Kerry Ellis recalls the remarkable career of the Englishwoman who saw it as her destiny to establish a pro-British monarchy in Iraq.

Daniel Snowman meets the historian of Germany, defender of history and expert witness in the Irving trial.

The Hampton Court Conference opened on January 14th, 1604. The most important product of the conference was the King James Bible.

Lawrence Paterson tells the story behind a new book of rare photographs published this month detailing life aboard a German Second World War submarine.

Richard Cavendish remembers the events of January 31st, 1504

Frank Shapiro investigates the options open to Jews who wanted to leave Nazi Germany prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, and considers why one possible...

Peter Ling argues that Thomas Jefferson’s ideas have had dramatic continent-wide effects on the landscape and ecology of the United States.