Volume 63 Issue 11 November 2013

Nicholas Henshall examines the politics of aristocratic culture in Europe between 1650 and 1750.

Proust's epic first appeared on November 14th, 1913.

Thomas Tompion, a master of time, died on November 20th, 1713.

Marilyn V. Longmuir looks at the historical background to the Burmese obsession with pristine bank notes.

British democracy owes a debt to the country’s first civil rights movement, says Malcolm Chase.

Historians are becoming more ambitious in the breadth and depth of their coverage. Is there a danger that this will reduce the role of humans to a bit part? Not necessarily, says Paul Dukes.

Australia and the US were allies during the Second World War, though that wasn’t always apparent in the relationship between GIs and Diggers. This is the story of one especially bitter encounter.