Volume: 62 Issue: 4

The medieval holy man was killed by the Danes on April 19th, 1012.

The last person burned to death at the stake for heresy was executed on April 11th, 1612.

In April 1782 the first of a series of revolutions that were to change the shape of Europe broke out in the republic of Geneva. It was fuelled by a long rift...

Blair Worden revisits Hugh Trevor-Roper’s essay on the radicalism of the Puritan gentry, a typically stylish and ambitious contribution to a fierce controversy....

Since the 19th century, attitudes to drugs have been in constant flux, argues Victoria Harris, owing as much to fashion as to science.

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

Mary Rose was the younger sister of Henry VIII. David Loades describes how this forgotten Tudor was something of a wild card.

The great military institution took flight on April 13th, 1912.

The Tudor historian John Guy returns to his medieval roots to examine the true nature of the relationship between Henry II and his ‘turbulent priest’ Thomas Becket...

Thirty years after the Falklands War the bitter debate over the South Atlantic islands remains clouded in historical ignorance, argues Klaus Dodds

Patrick Bishop’s first assignment as a foreign correspondent was to accompany the British task force sent to the South Atlantic to reclaim the Falkland Islands in...

The two 16th-century battles of Panipat, which took place 30 years apart, are little known in the West. But they were pivotal events in the making of the Mughal...

Just before Christmas 2011 the Heritage Lottery Fund announced a grant of £1.8m for the restoration of Forty Hall Park, Enfield, the site of a Tudor palace and...

Roger Hudson on the vitriolic reaction to Paul Robeson's open-air concert in Peekskill, New York, 1949.

Enter this month's crossword and win the audiobook Titanic: Voices From the BBC Archives.

For a century the sinking of the Titanic has attracted intense interest. Yet, as Andrew Wells explains, there have been many vested interests keen to...

Nigel Richardson describes the impact of the Titanic disaster on Southampton, the city from which she sailed and home to more than a third of those who...

James Romm examines some intriguing new theories about a long-standing historical mystery.

A well-written narrative that explores how fallout from Anglo-French rivalry in the Middle East continues to shape the region today.

A compelling addition to the history of women resisters and their moving acts of solidarity.

A book of dazzling erudition and lucid logic that explores the epic struggle between the art connoisseur and the forger.

Two excellent books demonstrate that the availability of a plentiful food supply has always been accompanied by its corollary: concern about its detrimental...

An account of a 17th-century conflict between China and the Dutch sheds fresh light on why the West rose to global dominance

Nigel Jones considers a new book on the mère et père of all Gallic scandals, the Dreyfus affair.

In this month's quiz we have questions on the first colour feature film, a left-wing terrorist organisation and the suppression of the Knights Templar.