Volume 70 Issue 1 January 2020

Science and superstition collided when an apocalypse was predicted to strike the United States in December 1919.

The Plague was not just a medieval illness.

The most maligned of creatures, since ancient times, wolves have played a central role in mythology.

Carving our names on great monuments is a millennia-old tradition, but why do we do it?

Crime and punishment, theatre, sex, war, and empire.

The nuclear physicist who revealed secrets to the Soviets.

Going beyond the clichés to reveal Marie-Antoinette as a political operator with real influence.

A history from the earliest humans to those occupying ‘the bed of the future’.

An Indigenous rebellion in colonial Argentina foreshadowed later risings – and resonates to this day.

The repression in China’s Xinjiang region has deep historical roots.