Volume 68 Issue 8 August 2018

A staple of Russia and the Slavic world, borscht has inspired films and novels – and has even reached outer space.

An enchanting series revealed the strangeness of the past to generations of children.  

Never fully exorcised, the memory of Italy’s fascist past is fading.

How will modern women respond to the realities of a 16th-century life?

The reasons for the brevity of the Latin presence in the 12th-century Eastern Mediterranean.

A teenager shipwrecked on a Pacific atoll helped transform relations between Japan and the United States.

Since the moment Emily Brontë died we have tried – and failed – to understand who she was. 

Women played a minor role in the Easter Rising of 1916. But they became crucial intelligence agents in the Anglo-Irish War.

The dramatic events that shook Britain in the 17th century resonate more strongly than ever, despite attempts to marginalise them.