The Combat of the Thirty
A chivalric form of planned battle took place on 26 March 1351.
Volume 70 Issue 3 March 2020
On the Spot: Panikos Panayi
‘History seems to have little influence on many of our rulers.’
Friends in High Places
Getting intimate with America’s only bachelor president.
Making Medieval Ireland English
An audacious plan to install an English saint as the patron saint of Ireland.
Escape to Mexico
Filmmakers, revolutionaries, Iranian shahs – Mexico has a long history of providing political asylum.
Siberia’s Surprising Musical History
How educated exiles transformed Irkutsk into ‘the Paris of Siberia’.
A Strange Pantheon
The interface between politics and war, rather than military strategy and tactics.
Don’t Be Evil
A warning housed in one of the jewels of the Italian Renaissance is as pertinent now as ever.
The Devil by the Deep Blue Sea
The allure of the sun-burnished boulevards of Marseille remains intact.
Freyja the Token of Truce
The Norse god who found a new immortality in the stage works of Richard Wagner.