Today's featured articles
The extent to which Britons were involved in slave-ownership has been laid bare by a project based at University College London. Katie Donington shows how one family profited.
Mark Rathbone analyses the causes and consequences of sudden changes of policy in nineteenth-century British politics.
As human populations expand and their exploitation of the globe increases, so does their vulnerability to certain diseases.
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Bats: Out of Hell?
It took an Irish Gothic novelist to tie up centuries of demonic mythology surrounding this leathery, nocturnal mammal.
Before Empire
In its earliest days, the East India Company was seen not as a threat to Asia’s elites, but as a means of strengthening their powers.
Making Massacre
A Dutch conspiracy trial in the Indonesian archipelago gave birth to a sadly enduring English word.
Why Study the Past?
History can teach, inspire, warn, include and exclude; its uses change to fit the present moment.
The Last Sikh Queen
The ambitious Sikh queen Jind Kaur faced division among her subjects and the might of the British Empire.
The First Blind Medical Trials
Cures and treatments have always offered potential riches to their inventors. But how was one supposed to know what worked and what didn’t?
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Volume 70 Issue 10 October 2020
In the October issue:
The Last Sikh Queen, Before Empire, The Shanghai Race Club, The First Blind Medical Trials, Cuba, Why Study the Past?
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