Volume 70 Issue 7 July 2020

As human populations expand and their exploitation of the globe increases, so does their vulnerability to certain diseases.

Human suffering is at the heart of Michelangelo’s masterpiece.

A history of the clean body is also a history of societal expectation, technological innovation, class, privacy and spare time.

The English came late to gardening, but they have more than made up for it.

Will the pandemic see a boom in local history, or will it spur a desire for global perspectives? Perhaps both.

Four historians consider the harm caused by those who should have helped their political masters.

A British public relations company in cahoots with sympathetic MPs was unable to whitewash the military regime that seized power in Greece in 1967.

When Henry VIII and Francis I met 12 years after the Field of Cloth of Gold – with Henry accompanied by Anne Boleyn – both sought to outdo one another with exquisite items of display.

The complex reign of Henry III, the fourth longest in English history.