Volume 70 Issue 2 February 2020

The most powerful family of Florence and the most powerful man in the world offer a new solution to one of the most notorious crimes of the age.

A Victorian doctor offering to cure female ‘lunacy’ came under fire for his scandalous new operation: female genital mutilation.

On 1 January 1933, Germany was a democracy with a range of political parties. By the end of the year its parliament was a rubber stamp for Adolf Hitler’s will.