Ayodhya: Digging Up India’s Holy Places
Anubha Charan describes the arguments surrounding one of the world’s most politically explosive excavations.
History Today
Opening the Hermit Kingdom
In the middle of the 19th century, Korea was isolated from the rest of the world and unknown. Many attempts were made to open it.
The Treaty of Lyons
France ceded Naples to Spain on January 31st, 1504.
Opening of the Sudanese Parliament
The first-ever parliament of the Sudan was opened by the British governor-general, Sir Robert Howe, on January 1st, 1954.
Argentina’s Coup: Social Myth, Memory and History
Federico Guillermo Lorenz shows that those who control the present are sometimes able to control interpretations of the past.
Thomas Jefferson and the Environment
Peter Ling argues that Thomas Jefferson’s ideas have had dramatic continent-wide effects on the landscape and ecology of the United States.
Nature and Nation: Britain and America in the 19th Century
David Lowenthal explores natural history enthusiasms among Victorian Britons and Americans, and finds an explanation for their differing approaches to conservation.
Room with a View
Charlotte Crow glimpses the British Museum’s new exhibition of its own original collections in the great King’s Library.
On the Banks of the Neva: British Merchants in St Petersburg before the Russian Revolution
In the final article in our series on Britain and Russia, Stuart Thompstone visits the long-lasting community of Britons in the Russian capital.
The Methuen Treaty
December 27th, 1703