Alan Knight

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise, Giovanni di Paolo, 1445. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public Domain.

On the Spot: Alan Knight

‘Which moment would I most like to go back to? Just before the Big Bang. I realise there are risks attached.’

Mexican president Lázaro Cárdenas with some of the ‘Niños de Morelia’ escaping Franco’s Spain, Mexico City, 1937. Bettman/Getty Images.

How Mexico Fought Franco

Just two countries supported the Republic during the Spanish Civil War: the Soviet Union and Mexico. While Soviet help came with strings attached, Mexico’s reflected the country’s contentious relationship with its old colonial master.

‘La Gran Calavera de Emiliano Zapata’, a broadside from the Mexican Revolution, c. 1911. New York Public Library. Public Domain.

A History of the Mexican Revolution

The Mexican Revolution, which began in 1910, was one of the great revolutionary upheavals of the 20th century. What were its causes and consequences?