Volume: 58 Issue: 4

Sue Donnelly introduces the archives of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and a project to make them accessible to a wider audience.

 How should a society acknowledge the history of minority communities within its borders, particularly minorities that have suffered at the hands of the majority?

Continental chefs dominated London’s restaurant world in the nineteenth century, says Panikos Panayi.

Mark Bryant on cartoons of the man who shook Victorian society to the core.

Charlotte Crow tells how a remarkable photographer will be celebrated in two exhibitions organized by the National Trust during Liverpool’s European Capital of...

In 1908 the Olympic movement visited Britain for the first time. Stephen Halliday describes how the British Olympic Association prepared for the Games with barely...

Anthony Fletcher delves into the diaries of teenage girls in the Georgian and Victorian eras to explore the little-changing constraints, punishments and occasional...

Patricia Cleveland-Peck visits the capital of French Canada which is celebrating its 400th birthday this year

International alarm over the terrorist threat is not new. Anthony Read relates how the appearance of Bolshevism created a state of near hysteria...

Geoffrey Tyack remembers the renowned architectural historian who died on December 27th, 2007.

Martin Evans talks to Helen Dunmore, whose historical novels range from the worst horrors of twentieth-century warfare to the luxurious world of late Republican...

Richard Stoneman investigates the strange but widely held belief in the Middle Ages, that Alexander the Great had conquered more than the land, taking to the air and...

Many who supported the campaign for compulsory military service in Edwardian Britain saw it as a necessary measure against the threat of invasion and the shadow of...

The civil rights leader was shot dead on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel on April 4th, 1968.

Mary wedded Francis, Dauphin of France on April 24th, 1558.

How dangerous was life in the Middle Ages? Sean McGlynn gets to grips with the level of violent crime, and the sometimes cruel justice meted out to offenders....

Adam Zamoyski’s latest book about his ancestral homeland tells of a brief, largely forgotten, exception to the melancholy catalogue of Polish defeats....