Volume 64 Issue 9 September 2014

In recent years historians have shown a renewed interest in court history. Hardly surprising, says Philip Mansel, as courts play a central role in understanding the past and maintain a critical importance in contemporary politics.

Patricia Rothman celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of the brilliant James Joseph Sylvester, whose ambitions to be recognised as a professional mathematician were hindered by the religious restrictions of the age.

Roger Moorhouse tells the story of the Lützow, a partly built German cruiser delivered to the Soviet Union in 1940 and renamed the Petropavlovsk, following the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939.

William Brooke Joyce took to the airwaves on 14 September 1939.

Manhattan was taken on September 8th, 1664.

The decline of language skills threatens the study of the past. And machines won’t come to the rescue.

Historians gathered at Warwick this summer to celebrate the contribution of Christopher Andrew.

The North African country is considering how best to serve its rich heritage.