Volume 70 Issue 10 October 2020

Odysseus, study for The Apotheosis of Homer, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, c.1850 © Bridgeman Images.

Why Study the Past?

History can teach, inspire, warn, include and exclude; its uses change to fit the present moment.

Maharani Jind Kaur, by George Richmond, 19th century © Christie’s/Bridgeman Images.

The Last Sikh Queen

The ambitious Sikh queen Jind Kaur faced division among her subjects and the might of the British Empire. 

Metallic Tractors, by James Gillray, 1801.

The First Blind Medical Trials

Cures and treatments have always offered potential riches to their inventors. But how was one supposed to know what worked and what didn’t?