Volume 57 Issue 5 May 2007

Jonathan Harris explores the historical continuities of a city that has been the capital of two major world empires for over 1,500 years, by looking at the vicissitudes of a building that has served two faiths.

The historical presence of South Asian men and women in Britain has been ignored for too long, says Shompa Lahiri, who has investigated their experiences during the Second World War.

Richard Cavendish provides an overview of the life of Daphne du Maurier, who was born on May 13th, 1907.

Mark Bryant looks at the work of the Punch artist whose drawings symbolized British anger over the Indian Mutiny and established his own reputation.

Vic Gatrell, recently awarded the PEN/Hessell-Tiltman History Book of the Year award 2006 for his book on the satire of 18th- and early 19th-century Britain, explains what impels his writing.

Gerald Howson tells the tale of the Spanish republican who invented a jet engine and died during Franco’s coup.

A.J. Stockwell reviews a new collection of writings by Wm. Roger Louis.