Volume 71 Issue 2 February 2021

Ben Jones

Dissonant Horn

Ethiopia’s current crisis is rooted in a long history of regional and ethnic defiance towards the political centre. 

The Summons to Surrender: an Incident in the Spanish Armada, by George Vicat Cole, 19th century.

The Crowd-Funded War

In the wake of the failure of the Spanish Armada, England sought retaliation by launching an invasion of its own. But how to finance such a venture?

Bayon Temple, 1866, by John Thomson.

In the Shadow of Angkor

The ruined temples of Cambodia’s medieval empire became symbols of a people who had forgotten their history. In reality, they demonstrate an inherent continuity. 

De László in his London studio, 1937.

To Frame a Painter

A society portraitist who emigrated to Britain from Hungary found himself embroiled in a drama of divided loyalties during the First World War.