History Today

Child's Play in Classical Athens

Lesley Beaumont looks at how children's games were not just seen as pastimes but as active stimuli to learning and good citizenship in the world of Plato and Aristotle.

Crash-Course Americanism

Mark Meigs uncovers a fascinating initiative enacted in France at the end of the First World War designed to turn American soldiers into students empowered with all the virtues of the Progressive era.

Toadies

Andrew Allen looks at one of the bizarre fairground attractions of Georgian England and the fate of its practitioners.

Hutterians

Judith Rice on a sixteenth-century sect in the modern world.