The Pandemic and History
Four historians consider whether the experience of the pandemic has changed their views on the nature of historical crises.
Volume 71 Issue 6 June 2021
What’s in a Name?
When people are returned to the historical record, they regain their humanity.
The Year of the Sepoy Revolt
How events in British India were leveraged in the debate over slavery.
Flaming June
A Victorian homage to a Renaissance master became one of the world’s most reproduced images.
The Power of the Pen
The writing of constitutions is a forgotten artform.
Blood, Stones and Holy Bones
The spiritual power of medieval relics meant that Jerusalem, or a dragon, could be remade anywhere.
The End of a Nation
Wedged between Russia, Prussia and Austria, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth faced extinction in the 18th century.
The Moral of the Victorian Children’s Story
Illustrated picture books in Victorian England reached new aesthetic heights. But was it always for the benefit of the children?
Solving the Insoluble
Was the partition of Ireland an inevitable act?
The Historian Embodied
Dressing in historical clothes can reveal things about the past that no book can.