Today’s Featured Articles
Richard Cavendish describes the formation of the state of Israel, proclaimed by David Ben-Gurion, on May 14th, 1948.
The ‘normalisation’ of diplomatic relations between several Arab countries and Israel in late 2020 was described at the time as ‘historic’. Four experts consider whether it will lead to long-term change.
Starting in the 1960s, the Palestinian revolution was galvanised by the production of protest posters which depicted a united people and a hopeful future. As the liberation movement fractured, such visions disappeared.
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The Spanish Witches of Cartagena
The Spanish Inquisition arrived in the New World convinced of the existence of heretics and witches. Learning to navigate the Inquisitors’ demonic expectations was one way to survive, as shown by the case of Paula de Eguiluz.
Catullus and Lesbia’s Sparrow
A Roman poet transformed an unremarkable bird into a contested symbol of eroticism.
Yemen’s Endless Wars
For more than a century, southern Arabia has seen waves of insurgency and conflict backed by competing foreign powers.
A Feather in her Cap
A global trade in feathers, with London at its heart, saw hundreds of millions of birds killed every year. Emily Williamson waged a long and furious campaign against it.
Blow-by-Blow
The scorchingly honest assessments of the great and not-so-good that flowed from ‘Chips’ Channon’s poison pen.
Is Caribbean History the Key to Understanding the Modern World?
Four distinguished scholars consider a historical question of enormous contemporary resonance.
A Tyrant goes on Trial
Charges were brought against Peter von Hagenbach at the ‘first international war crimes trial’, held on 9 May 1474.
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Volume 71 Issue 5 May 2021
In the May issue:
Napoleon: Two Centuries of Life After Death, Slavery in the American West, Popes, Melancholy, the Irish War of Independence, John Brown, Polling in a Pandemic, Yemen.
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