Volume 76 Issue 8 August 2026

‘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.

A new translation marks the 50th anniversary of Carlo Ginzburg’s pioneering microhistory The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller.

Often dismissed as a myth, was there a real man behind the legend of King Arthur?

Charismatic Nations: A Cultural History of Nationalism in Europe from 1800 to the Present by Joep Leerssen looks to art and not politics for the birth of the nation.