This Month's Magazine

March Issue

In the March issue:

  • Shampoo Empire 
  • Britain’s Gardening Revolution
  • A Cure Worse than Disease
  • The Great Rabbit Hoax
  • The State of the Nation
  • Why is the Public so Obsessed with the Nazis?
  • Escape to Mexico
  • Eels
  • Liverpool’s Slave Trade
  • English Saints in Ireland

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Selected articles from this issue

An eel, probably a serpent eel, from Aquatilium animalium historiea, liber primus, by Ippolito Salviani, 1554 © British Library Board/Bridgeman Images.
Natural Histories

Sexual Eeling

The slippery subject of eel reproduction evaded human understanding for millennia.

The Saracens besiege a Christian city, detail from The Song of Saint Mary, 1221-84 Photo © Luisa Ricciarini/Bridgeman Images.
Feature

Sin and Siege: The End of the Crusades

Acre was the most cosmopolitan city in the medieval world. Its inhabitants thought it too valuable to destroy. They were wrong.

Mahomed’s Baths on Brighton seafront, c.1820 © Hulton Getty Images.
Feature

Shampoo Empire

Shampooing was brought to Britain by a Bengali immigrant who knew his craft – and how to sell it.

View of Hampton Court, by Leonard Knyff, c.1702. Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2020/Bridgeman Images.
Feature

Britain’s Gardening Revolution

Stately homes surrounded by extravagant gardens are a staple of the English countryside, but how were they funded?

‘Is This a Time for Sleep?’, 1883, in which Cholera looms over New York Harbor while Science sleeps 23 © Granger/Bridgeman Images.
History Matters

A Cure Worse than Disease

Quarantine is intended to protect, but it can also punish.