Volume 54 Issue 12 December 2004

Richard Cavendish remembers the events of December 9th, 1854.

Adrian Mourby welcomes a new wave of opera houses around the world, and compares this with the previous surge in the late 19th century.

Martin D. Brown tells the little-known story of how British and American soldiers disappeared in Slovakia’s Tatra Mountains during the remarkable episode of Slovakia’s National Uprising against its Nazi-supporting government during the Second World War.

William Frend, later professor of ecclesiastical history at Glasgow University, explained how he influenced the course of European history in 1944.