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‘Oh, my fur and whiskers!’: a hare or rabbit mosaic, from the House of Dionysus, Cyprus, third century AD © Bridgeman Images
History Matters

What Have the Romans Done for Us?

Not content with bringing aqueducts, sanitation and roads, the Romans transformed Britain’s flora and fauna.

Dan Eatherley

God in the machine?: Detail from Darkness, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1943 © Bridgeman Images
Review

The Future of God in 1943

Christian thinkers whose lives and thoughts connected in 1943, when it looked like the Allies were on top and minds turned to the future. 

Tim Stanley

Illustration by Ben Jones.
Behind the Times

Antisemitism: the Socialism of Fools

The Labour Party’s recent entanglement with antisemitism came as a shock to many. At its root is the issue of nationalism.

Steven Beller

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The Singapore flagged Norman Atlantic after an Iranian attack, on approach to the Strait of Hormuz, 6 December 1987 © Norbert Schiller/AFP/Getty Images
Feature

Oil and Water: The Tanker Wars

The Strait of Hormuz has become a fraught passage in the Tanker Wars between Iran and Iraq.

Neville Chamberlain announcing "Peace in our Time" on his arrival at Heston Airport, 30 September 1938.
Review

A Well-Trodden Road

An admirable retelling of the traditional history of appeasement.

Illustration for The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, 1896
Review

Chaucer: The Poet in His World

Is a biography of Chaucer impossible?

Detail from the Bull-leaping fresco from the Minoan Palace of Knossos
Miscellanies

Inside the Ancient Bull Cult

King Minos and the Minotaur remain shrouded in mystery and mythology, yet evidence of a Bronze Age ‘Bull Cult’ at the Minoan palaces abounds. Were bulls merely for entertainment or did they have a deeper significance?

Conservator Claire Reed with the remains of a drinking vessel discovered at Prittlewell, Essex, in 2003 © Press Association Images
Out of the Margins

Heads Turned by Treasure

Archaeologists and historians are on the same side, despite what journalists say.

The Course of Empire: Destruction by Thomas Cole
Head to Head

Are Empires Always Bad?

Empires have been part of human history for millennia. Are they, of necessity, a bad thing?

John Buchan
Review

Retracing The Steps

An intimate understanding of John Buchan with a scholarly reading of the immense mass of his papers 

Elizabeth I, by Nicholas Hilliard, c.1580 Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2019/Bridgeman Images
Review

A Painter Fit for a Queen

Nicholas Hilliard was a portraitist at the pinnacle of his profession.

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Volume 69 Issue 7 July 2019

  • A hidden chapter: women of the Klan
  • Apocalypse then: when the world didn't end
  • The Civil War's 'Martyr of Peace'
  • The Bengal famine of 1943: is there only one story to tell?
  • 'The last front' of the Freikorps
  • The book that can't be read
  • Thatcher breaks consensus
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