Today’s featured articles
The abolition of the death penalty in Britain is often seen as a symbol of the permissive 1960s. Instead, it was the result of a decades-long campaign by abolitionists.
As ancient Rome was divided by civil war Cicero found himself torn. Caesar was his old adversary, but he was also powerful, and it was politically and personally expedient to support him.
The fall of the Berlin Wall posed various questions. Was a united Germany dangerous? How to protect the East’s heritage? And how should the Wall be remembered?
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The Bayeux Tapestry: Woven by the Victors
The Bayeux Tapestry may be back in England, but it is a Norman artwork. For Anglo-Saxon voices, we need to look elsewhere.
On the Spot: Nile Green
‘Why am I a historian of global Islam? I try to understand how different cultures do, and don’t, understand each other.’
Slavery in the Colonial Caribbean
This month marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved people in the English Caribbean.
‘Fakers’ by Rory Cormac review
Fakers: A Top-Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the Disinformation Front Line by Rory Cormac brings Britain’s shadowy Information Research Department into the light.
King of Games: Politics, Polo, and the Raj
Indian teams besting British sides on the polo field threatened to undermine the colonial enterprise.
‘The Shah’s Party and the Iranian Revolution That Followed’ review
In The Shah’s Party and the Iranian Revolution That Followed Robert Templer reveals the hubristic high point of the Pahlavi regime’s self-regard.
General Pinochet’s Return
Redressing the crimes of Pinochet’s regime has been a hard-fought and often contested process. Chile’s current presidency has revealed how easily progress can be reversed.
‘The Cheese and the Worms’ by Carlo Ginzburg review
A new translation marks the 50th anniversary of Carlo Ginzburg’s pioneering microhistory The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller.
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