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A witch feeding her toad-imps in a 1630 woodcut.

Toadies

Andrew Allen looks at one of the bizarre fairground attractions of Georgian England and the fate of its practitioners.

Andrew Allen

'Italy. With the help of Marshall Plan funds, a new product rolled out of the factory, the Vespa Piaggio plant at Pontedera near Pisa, Italy.' c. 1948-1955. US National Archives.
Months Past

The Marshall Plan

In the ideological battlefield of the recovery and reshaping of Europe, a plan was developed between the US and European Nations on 5 June 1947.

Tony Aldous

Promotional photo of Lyudmila Pavlichenko ‘defending Sevastopol’, 6 June 1942 © Ozersky/AFP/Getty Images
Feature

Soviet Super Sniper: A Woman at War

The ‘Guerrilla Queen’ of Soviet Russia became a role model for women in combat.

Julie Wheelwright

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The goddess Mayahuel, depicted in the Codex Magliabechiano, 16th century © Bridgeman Images.
Review

The Humans Behind the Sacrifice

Everything you thought you knew about the Aztecs is wrong.

Diana and Actaeon, by Tiziano Vecellio (Titian), 1556-59, National Gallery and National Galleries of Scotland.
Foundations

Diana and Actaeon

Ovid’s tale inspired one of the world’s greatest works of art.

Workers at an archaeological excavation site, anonymous, c.1920-1930. Rijksmuseum.
Behind the Times

Finding Wonderful Things

What the media missed while covering the discovery of two statues in Rome.

Woman Reading 1606–69, Rembrandt. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Interactive

April Quiz

When was the Year of the Four Popes? Who were the Sacred Band of Thebes?

The Gorleston Psalter (detail), 1310-25 © British Library Board/Bridgeman Images.
History Matters

The Sauce of the Middle Ages

How Worcestershire sauce changed the way we look at medieval manuscripts.

Still Life with Fruit, by Osias Beert, c.1600 © National Portrait Gallery, London.
History Matters

White Gold

How Chinese porcelain became a worldwide sensation, changing tastes and the global economy.

The philosopher Thomas Hobbes in 1676 Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire. English, 17th century.
From the Editor

Mind Your Language

Historians should remind themselves that quantity and quality are often very different things.

A mass rally in Tiananmen Square of Beijing in 1965 against U.S. intervention in Congo-Léopoldville. Wiki Commons.
Review

The Communist’s Holiday

An outsider’s observations from the moments before China’s Cultural Revolution.

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April 2020

Volume 70 Issue 4 April 2020

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  • Soviet Super Snpier 
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  • Kingdoms Come Apart
  • What can History teach us about Epidemics?
  • Bulls
  • Right Wing Populism and France
  • Chinese Porcelain
  • British Rule in Palestine

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