Volume 70 Issue 3 March 2020

Once the slave-trading capital of Britain, the memory of Britain’s empire of enslavement remains visible in Liverpool’s public buildings and streets.

Recent government proposals are merely the latest in a long history of hostility.

The religious politics that reshaped 17th-century England and Scotland and propelled many towards transatlantic migration.

There is nothing new about political divisions, nor attempts to heal them.

Were humanist free-thinkers the engineers of magic’s decline?

In 1726, Mary Toft claimed she had given birth to rabbits. The case became a test of the doctors’ scientific principles.

The history of the Third Reich remains as popular as ever. Why?

Recent political crises have shown the importance – and neglect – of constitutional history.

The slippery subject of eel reproduction evaded human understanding for millennia.

Acre was the most cosmopolitan city in the medieval world. Its inhabitants thought it too valuable to destroy. They were wrong.