Volume 54 Issue 3 March 2004

The Birth of Amerigo Vespucci

The ‘most controversial character in the history of discovery’ was born on March 9th, 1454. But who was Amerigo Vespucci?

The Crimean War

The events leading up to Britain and France's declarations of war on Russia on successive days on 27 and 28 March 1854.

Revealing Mary

Angela McShane Jones asks what depictions in broadsides of Mary II with her breasts exposed, tell us about 17th-century popular attitudes to royalty.