This Month's Magazine
In our December issue:
- The Crown’s long farewell to India
- Kazakhstan’s bloody December
- What's wrong with liberalism?
- The woman behind the Kindertransport
- The global suffrage movement
- Christmas before Dickens
- The rise of Japan
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Selected articles from this issue
Rich enough to appeal to lords and dukes, the success of panettone is down to its festive, egalitarian simplicity.
The voice of the British monarch carried considerable weight in imperial India. Its slow silencing mirrored the retreat of Britain from the subcontinent.
Female volunteers such as Marie Schmolka played a decisive role in the collaborative project to rescue beleaguered Jewish children.
Charles Dickens’ name conjures up the quintessential English Christmas, but it is to another Charles D that we must look if we want to know what festivities were like before the Victorian makeover.
Mikhail Gorbachev’s Perestroika triggered an outpouring of resentment across the USSR. In 1986, young Kazakhs made their voices heard, but the Soviet regime was not ready to listen.
‘The greatest good for the greatest number’ flounders when society cannot agree on what is ‘good’ – or ‘bad’.
Britain was neither the first country, nor the last, to give women the vote. It was one part of a global movement.
As today, accusations of rape in 19th-century America inevitably, and repeatedly, met with harsh backlashes against the victims.
Folklore, fairies and demonic spirits in the sceptical 17th century.
Changing views of illegitimate children raise both moral and economic issues.
Norwich prospered in the 16th century, thanks to an influx of immigrants, who arrived fleeing persecution.
A master historian’s definitive study of one of the most astonishing and influential careers in English history.
A readable history of the Portuguese capital emphasises the modern at the expense of the city’s deeper past.
From the Thirty Years War to the ancient civilisation of Iran, from Anglo-American rivalries in the desert to the persecution of indigenous peoples, historians select their favourite books of the past year.
When it comes to rapid world-changing events, the Meiji Restoration has few equals.