Volume 76 Issue 3 March 2026

Two thousand were slain on the night of 30 March 1282 as the Kingdom of Sicily rose against the hated Charles of Anjou in the Sicilian Vespers.

Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1600 by A. Tunç Şen follows the fortunes of the sultan’s stargazers.

‘What is the most common misconception about my field? That the Renaissance was a ‘secular’ age.’

St Patrick’s Day is a global celebration of Irish culture, but in the US its parades have always been political.

In some corners of England, the last Anglo-Saxon relics are looking down on us.

Colonists had contrasting views on the Jamestown famine. How severe was it really?

Mexico: A History by Paul Gillingham and A Brief History of Violence in Mexico by Pablo Piccato start from different places. Yet their neighbour to the north proves to be an inescapable destination.

How likely is it that Alfred the Great sent two emissaries to India in the ninth century?

During the Second World War, Berlin scientists discovered nuclear fission. Only one of them got the credit. Why was Lise Meitner written out of history?

Mexico’s disgraced saviour General Antonio López de Santa Anna completed his comeback on 9 March 1839 as the Pastry War came to a close.