This Month's Magazine
In the July issue:
- The Field of Cloth of Gold
- Child Voters
- The Colonels’ Failed PR Coup
- The Early Life of Gibberish
- Venetian Spies
- History’s Worst Political Advisers
- Drinking Games
- Ancient Work Hazards
- Dogs
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Selected articles from this issue
Four historians consider the harm caused by those who should have helped their political masters.
As human populations expand and their exploitation of the globe increases, so does their vulnerability to certain diseases.
Venice developed the most sophisticated intelligence network in Renaissance Europe, securing it from enemies within and without.
When Henry VIII and Francis I met 12 years after the Field of Cloth of Gold – with Henry accompanied by Anne Boleyn – both sought to outdo one another with exquisite items of display.
Five hundred years ago, in a spirit of rivalry and cooperation, two young Renaissance monarchs asserted their power and authority at one of the last great demonstrations of the chivalric age.
In the politically chaotic decades before true universal suffrage, some infants found a way to vote in British elections.
A British public relations company in cahoots with sympathetic MPs was unable to whitewash the military regime that seized power in Greece in 1967.
What does it mean to speak gobbledygook, mumbo-jumbo or jargon? Such words are more fraught than the playful games of the Jabberwocky suggest.
154 years after her death, Manuela Sáenz was given a state burial on 5 July 2010.
The ancient world found ingenious solutions for protective equipment in the workplace – but did its workers benefit?
A history of the clean body is also a history of societal expectation, technological innovation, class, privacy and spare time.
The English came late to gardening, but they have more than made up for it.
Will the pandemic see a boom in local history, or will it spur a desire for global perspectives? Perhaps both.