Behind the Times

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 legacy of a decade of British weapons testing in its vast central deserts has forced Australia into an uncomfortable reckoning with its nuclear past.

The shocking murder of its royal family in June 2001 changed the course of Nepal’s history. On the massacre’s 25th anniversary, the country appears to be changing direction again.

In the postwar era bounteous US foreign aid reshaped the world, for better or worse. With the culling of USAID those days are over.

China plans to move its British embassy to a controversial new London site. It will carry 150 years of history with it.

St Patrick’s Day is a global celebration of Irish culture, but in the US its parades have always been political.

In the fight against rising river pollution by big corporations, legal cases have had to get creative.

Indonesian national heroes are state approved. Is Suharto, an old president with a history of violence, worthy of the title?

How to finance old age has been a problem since the inception of Britain’s welfare state. Why is pension reform so difficult?

It is 40 years since the death of Fernand Braudel, the historian who sought the perspective of ‘God the Father’.