Volume 76 Issue 9 September 2026

The Bayeux Tapestry may be back in England, but it is a Norman artwork. For Anglo-Saxon voices, we need to look elsewhere.

The Bookshop: A History of Bookselling From the Dawn of Print to the 21st Century by Andrew Pettegree reveals the hard graft and innovation behind the book trade.

In 1935 Turkmen farmers rode their horses 4,300 kilometres across the Soviet Union to impress Moscow.

Desk Revolutionaries: The Men of the French Directory, 1795-9 by Biancamaria Fontana sets the record straight on the French Revolution’s great experiment in governance.

The consequences of Carthusian defiance showed the brutality of the dissolution of the monasteries.

The Rise and Fall of American Europe by Glyn Morgan finds a continent powerless before a capricious United States. Is it too late to teach an old world new tricks?

Sailors looking for work in the 19th century risked getting crimped – or shanghaied – and caught in a whirlpool of exploitation and corruption.

During the Kenya Emergency, white women took up arms against the Mau Mau rebels. What did it mean to be both domestic and violent?

The Traveller: The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and His Search for Humanity by Andrea Wulf brings the most enlightened of Enlightenment radicals into the mainstream.