This Month's Magazine
In the June issue:
- The Discovery of Sparta
- The Death of Toussaint Louverture
- China: Behind the Mask
- Hard Work: Universal Credit
- Female Doctors
- Does Boom always follow Bust?
- The Country House
- Boris Johnson: Disraeli or Churchill?
Plus reviews and more!
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Selected articles from this issue
Worms are among the simplest of creatures. But, as Darwin discovered, even they share things in common with humanity.
Four historians consider whether the sudden collapse of the world economy caused by the Covid-19 pandemic will be followed by an equally dramatic resurgence.
Boris Johnson is facing a national crisis like few other prime ministers. Which of his predecessors will he draw comparisons with?
The hero of the Haitian Revolution’s lonely death in a French prison cell was not an unfortunate tragedy but a cruel story of deliberate destruction.
The Chinese government’s reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic reveals much about its memory of the humiliations of the 19th century.
Warriors in red cloaks battling against the odds at Thermopylae is the image usually associated with Sparta. But a richer and more contentious tale lies in the ancient city’s stones.
The city of Thebes was central to the ancient Greeks’ achievements in politics and culture. For many centuries it has been largely – and often deliberately – forgotten.
The First World War offered new opportunities for enterprising female doctors.
Coffeehouses and coffee were not as closely related as one might think.
How presidential images show us that in politics, as in entertainment, appearances matter.