Volume 8 Issue 6 June 1958

Bombs over Venice

In the summer of 1849, Austrian forces besieging Venice decided to put into practice a novel plan; Europe had its first experience of aerial warfare.

Going to America

J.W. Blake describes how, during the colonial period, just over half a million emigrants—English, Scottish, Irish, French, German, Dutch, Swedish and Finnish—are calculated to have left Europe for a new home in America. Often they reached their goal only at the cost of hideous suffering.

The Mystery of Meroe

In the still largely unexplored Sudan lie the remains of one of the richest and least known of ancient African civilizations.