Volume 73 Issue 8 August 2023

Thriving in troubled times, the allure of a good conspiracy theory has proved irresistible whenever and wherever authorities are not trusted. What’s the damage? 

The correspondents who reported on a period when Russia changed European, and world, history.

The coronation of Charles III was dense with meaning. It’s complicated; and easy to misunderstand. 

An account of the Roman Empire at its height amounts to a marvellous vademecum.

A new account of some of the most exciting, terrible and important years in English history.

How should we view the worrying rise of protesters using symbols of the Holocaust to legitimise their cause? 

Madagascar was among the prizes of Europe’s ruthless African land grab. When a US diplomat made plans for his own colonial enterprise, he found that the French had other ideas.

The latest in Rob Murray's series of Alternative History cartoons.

As senility came to be recognised as a distinct diagnosis, methods of protecting patients – from themselves and from others – had to change. 

For the German military command, the citizens of East Prussia were not a concern; they were a weapon to be deployed in the Battle of Königsberg.