Volume 68 Issue 3 March 2018

It is tempting to try to understand events such as Brexit through historical analogies, but how useful are these comparisons?

A skilfully woven synthesis tells the story of the castles, palaces and great houses of Tudor England.

The 16th century was a time of crisis and change for Portugal’s empire.

The historian on her love for Mary Wollstonecraft, Locke’s manuscripts and why you should wash your hands.

French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was a hero to Beethoven, inspiring a revolutionary symphony. But disillusionment was soon to follow.

Behind the dominating presence of Frankenstein, the richness of Mary Shelley’s life is in danger of being lost.

The man who conspired to kill Julius Caesar was not quite the friend to Romans and countrymen that his legendary status suggests. 

Henri Pirenne transformed the way historians think about the end of the Classical world and the beginning of the Middle Ages.

The myths that surround the ultimately tragic rule of Charles I mask the realities of a courageous and uxorious king who fell foul of a bitter struggle between two sides of English Protestantism.

During the Second World War, Britain, the US and the Soviet Union worked together in oil-rich Iran. But cooperation was to degenerate into suspicion and hostility.