Volume 67 Issue 12 December 2017

As the sounds of the world rattled into the future, so, too, did art and music.

In a diverse field, expertise should remain at the heart of history on television.

An expedition route map produced by Stuart William Hughes Rawlins.

We ask 20 questions of leading historians on why their research matters, one book everyone should read and their views on the Tudors …

Newfoundland was England’s first overseas colony, but its settlement did not follow the usual patterns: its communities were nomadic, moving around the island with the seasons.

Winning the vote meant millions of women needed a party to represent them in Parliament. Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst founded one, with limited success.

In the POW camps of the Second World War, soldiers found release – from the conditions and from the all-male company – in female impersonation.

Fiercely independent, highly skilled sailors, the Kroomen of Sierra Leone forged an alliance with the Royal Navy to rid the African coasts of slavers.

As the world’s refugee crisis is once again bringing the challenges of mass encampment to Europe, the camps of Britain’s recent past could serve as a warning to today’s politicians.