Volume 76 Issue 8 August 2026

A project worthy of Jules Verne: the first rigid airship began its ascent on 31 August 1895.

The final fraudulent Cottingley fairies photograph was taken on 21 August 1920 by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths.

As advances in Soviet science in the 1950s were published in Russian, English-speaking scientists risked getting left behind.

‘Why am I a historian of global Islam? I try to understand how different cultures do, and don’t, understand each other.’

This month marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved people in the English Caribbean.

Fakers: A Top-Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the Disinformation Front Line by Rory Cormac brings Britain’s shadowy Information Research Department into the light.

Indian teams besting British sides on the polo field threatened to undermine the colonial enterprise.

In The Shah’s Party and the Iranian Revolution That Followed Robert Templer reveals the hubristic high point of the Pahlavi regime’s self-regard.

Redressing the crimes of Pinochet’s regime has been a hard-fought and often contested process. Chile’s current presidency has revealed how easily progress can be reversed.