Volume: 62 Issue: 3

Jonathan Downs reports on the fire last December that caused extensive damage to one of Egypt’s most important collections of historical manuscripts.

Churchill’s four-year quest to sink Hitler’s capital ship Tirpitz saw Allied airmen and sailors run risks that would be hard to justify today, says...

Tom Holland argues that the return of religion and the West’s current obsession with decline make Roy Porter’s profile of Edward Gibbon, first published in ...

Albert Speer’s plan to transform Berlin into the capital of a 1,000-year Reich would have created a vast monument to misanthropy, as Roger Moorhouse explains....

The historical debate over the United Kingdom has been led by those who wish to bring the Union to an end. David Torrance believes the public deserves a more...

Guibert of Nogent was a French abbot who found it difficult to adapt to the 12th-century Renaissance. Yet his writings are among the first works to examine man’s...

Ivan became Grand Prince on March 27th 1462, following the death of his father.

Kate Retford explains how the artist Johan Zoffany found ways to promote a fresh image of royalty that endeared him to George III and Queen Charlotte – a...

Alex Keller tells the story of how an unlikely friendship between a Dutch doctor and a young Italian nobleman led to the establishment of the first scientific...

A selection of readers' correspondence with the editor, Paul Lay.

Richard Hughes uncovers the patriotic efforts of the actor and playwright Noël Coward during the Second World War and argues that he should be remembered for more...

Constructing the Victoria Embankment on the north bank of the River Thames in London: an image analysed by Roger Hudson.

The Flemish cartographer was born on March 5th, 1512.

Barack Obama’s admiration for the progressive Republicanism of Theodore Roosevelt ignores the true nature of both early 20th-century America and the president who...

One of Britain’s finest Renaissance scholars and a ground-breaking study of the night in Early Modern Europe were among the winners­ at our annual celebration of...

Global history has become a vigorous field in recent years, examining all parts of the empires of Europe and Asia and moving beyond the confines of ‘top-down’...

Enter our crossword competition and win an audiobook of the King James Bible.

Two new books show that 16th-century history is about more than Henry VIII.

Jeremy Paxman's book on Britain's imperial story is an idiosyncratic, droll but ultimately useful introduction to the subject.

A new book tackles some of the myths around the Gallipoli campaign, while a set of memoirs offers a contemporary account.

The winner of our Caption Competition for January.

How did a quintessential German scholar become an anglicised architectural pundit, broadcaster and national treasure?

A new biography of Emperor Frederick II does a disservice to its subject matter and to a discerning public.

Two new books that achieve the unexpected: saying something new about the period between the late 1920s and 1945.

A highly original volume that provides a comprehensive analysis of the legacy of the Italian anti-fascist resistance.