Volume: 54 Issue: 4

Penny Ritchie Calder introduces a major new exhibition celebrating the greatest amphibious landing in history, and the bravery of those who took part.

After spending almost half her life in exile, the former Queen of Spain died on 9th April, 1904.

The Duke of Burgundy, named 'bold' for his bravery at the age of 14 in the Battle of Poitiers, died on April 27th, 1404.

William D. Rubinstein ascribes the bitterness of historians’ arguments to the lack of an agreed definition and to political agendas.

Daniel Snowman meets the historian of 18th-century British art, culture, commerce, consumption – and a sensational murder.

A selection of reader responses from our monthly post-bag.

Phil Chamberlain explains a Second World War plan to silence German double agents in the event of a German invasion of Britain.

Narrative historian and festival organiser Derek Wilson looks back over half a century of popularising history

Charles Freeman offers a new theory to explain the positioning in Venice of the famous horses looted from Constantinople eight hundred years ago this month.

Robert Bartlett delves into the Vatican archives to resuscitate a remarkable tale of execution and resurrection in 13th-century south Wales.

April 3rd, 1954

Charles Allen challenges the accepted account of a tragic massacre that took place in Tibet a century ago this month.

Andrew Bridgeford argues that we have failed to appreciate the ingenuity and complexity of the story depicted by the Bayeux Tapestry.

Michael Robertson tells how a group of lower-middle-class men in late-Victorian England found the American poet an inspiration in their desire to reconcile...

John Strachan looks at women and advertising in late Georgian England.