Volume 52 Issue 1 January 2002

Continuing our History and the Environment series, Harriet Ritvo looks at the role of big-game hunting in spreading awareness of the need for conservation

Melissa Lane looks at the reputation of the great philosopher. both at the time of is death and in subsequent debates about democracy.

The medicinal history of cannabis.

The Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Alliance, the first between a European country and an Asiatic power against a Western rival, was signed on 30 January 1902.

Louis Braille died on January 6th, 1852, aged 43.

The Holy Roman Emperor died on January 23rd, 1002.