A Hidden Chapter: Women of the Klan
The role of women in the Ku Klux Klan is often neglected, but they were key players at all levels.
Volume 69 Issue 7 July 2019
Thatcher Breaks Consensus
Assessing Margaret Thatcher’s premiership: a radical decade and a divisive legacy.
Apocalypse Then: When The World Didn’t End
Despite the religious rupture caused by the Reformation, fear of the Apocalypse remained common to both sides of western Christendom. But older, classical ideas of an eternal return were at work, too.
The Book That Can’t Be Read
Despite recent claims, the Voynich Manuscript remains one of history’s biggest mysteries.
‘The Last Front’ of the Freikorps
Events in the Baltic States at the end of the First World War had serious long-term consequences.
Sudan’s Third Revolution
The revolt against President Omar al-Bashir is not the first in Sudan’s history, but it is the first since Africa’s former largest country split in two.