Volume 70 Issue 11 November 2020

Africa’s continuing dependence on external credit is no accident. Today, it cripples the continent’s economy. From the 16th century, it funded the Atlantic slave trade. 

Despite her valiant efforts on their behalf, Margaret of Anjou would lose both her husband and her son in the dynastic tragedy of the Wars of the Roses. 

Chinese history is dominated by a nationalist interpretation that owes much to British ideas of the 19th and early 20th centuries.