Volume 65 Issue 4 April 2015

Hugh Gault charts the long-running debate over the privatisation of the Post Office amid rising competition and shifting political agendas.

In the precarious years that followed the Restoration of Charles II, the senior clergy of the Church of England navigated the country’s shifting politics at their peril. But high principles still had their place, as John Jolliffe explains.

Johann Weyer used his compassion and a pioneering approach to mental illness to oppose the witch-craze of early modern Europe.

Rhodesia’s white minority declared unilateral independence from the UK in 1965, gaining covert support from France, Britain’s colonial rival in Africa.

Isabella Tree explores the Kumaris, young girls chosen to be worshipped in Nepal by both Hindus and Buddhists as symbols of purity and makers of kings.

The painter Claude Monet spent his early twenties as a soldier in French North Africa, yet none of his works or writings from this period survive.