The Tunguska Event
Nigel Watson recalls a mysterious explosion that occurred in deepest Siberia on 30 June 1908.
History Today
Messages in 6,000 Bottles
Sean Kingsley describes how hi-tech marine archaeology off the Atlantic coast of Georgia in the US has thrown a new light on the world of snake-oil salesmen.
Solving Stonehenge
Anthony Johnson argues that an accurate interpretation of the great monument rests in the sophisticated geometric principles employed by its Neolithic surveyors.
The Old Firm
Graham Walker looks at how history and sport are interwoven in the sectarian rivalry between Celtic and Rangers football clubs.
Genghis Khan and the Communists
The Mongolian past has been drawn by both sides into twentieth-century disputes between Russia and China, writes J.J. Saunders.
Common Cause
Peter Linebaugh finds inspiration in the worldwide and timeless assertion of common rights, expressed in Magna Carta.
Honest Abe’s War
Mark Bryant examines how cartoonists saw the most traumatic years of American history.
Policing Palestine
James Barker reveals how parsimony and muddle in Whitehall in the first years of the British Mandate in Palestine almost led to disaster in August 1929.
Revisiting Orientalism
Edward Said’s controversial book is now thirty years old. A new exhibition of Orientalist paintings at Tate Britain provides a timely opportunity to revisit its argument, says Kamran Rastegar.