Volume: 55 Issue: 9

Rachel Sieder considers the role of ‘memory politics’ in Guatemala’s uncertain path to democracy as government and society attempt to come to terms with the...

Ian Kershaw sees 1945 as a real watershed in Europe’s history of the last century.

David Carpenter recalls the vanished world of the London docks in the 1950s.

Following his re-election in 1952, Juan Peron was overthrown on September 19th, 1955.

Bartholomew's Fair, which dates back to the twelth century, was held for the last time on September 3rd, 1855.

Sebastian Walsh looks at a forgotten friend and adviser to Queen Elizabeth from the early years of her reign.

Alison Barnes reveals a new discovery about the Eddystone lighthouse: the first of its kind to be built on rocks in the sea.

Historian of suburbia Mark Clapson peers over the fences of Wisteria Lane to discover a fifty-year-old myth still at work.

Seán Lang tells of the Dufferin Fund, an aristocratic initiative supported by Queen Victoria to improve medical conditions, particularly in childbirth, for Indian...

Ralph Griffiths commemorates the recently deceased historian of medieval Wales and Britishness.

Richard Grayson reveals the human side to a wartime Cabinet minister’s personal tragedy.

September 19th, 1905

Andrew Fisher asks who William Wallace really was, and why he has become an icon of Scottish resistance to the English.

Peter Furtado introduces the September 2005 issue.