Volume 69 Issue 1 January 2019

Relations between Iran and Britain have often been strained. Yet the relationship is an old one, marked by mutual admiration.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, patients were encouraged to snuff, snort and sneeze their way out of a whole range of ailments and illnesses. 

Is it possible for dissidents to bring peaceful change to repressive regimes?

Turning chaotic havens of ‘sloth and debauchery’ into systemised institutions of ‘pain and terror’, Victorian ‘model’ prisons were anything but.