This Month's Magazine
In the July issue:
- A hidden chapter: women of the Klan
- Apocalypse then: when the world didn't end
- The Civil War's 'Martyr of Peace'
- The Bengal famine of 1943: is there only one story to tell?
- 'The last front' of the Freikorps
- The book that can't be read
- Thatcher breaks consensus
- A history of the picnic
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Selected articles from this issue
Empires have been part of human history for millennia. Are they, of necessity, a bad thing?
The revolt against President Omar al-Bashir is not the first in Sudan’s history, but it is the first since Africa’s former largest country split in two.
Events in the Baltic States at the end of the First World War had serious long-term consequences.
Despite recent claims, the Voynich Manuscript remains one of history’s biggest mysteries.
Assessing Margaret Thatcher’s premiership: a radical decade and a divisive legacy.
Despite the religious rupture caused by the Reformation, fear of the Apocalypse remained common to both sides of western Christendom. But older, classical ideas of an eternal return were at work, too.
The role of women in the Ku Klux Klan is often neglected, but they were key players at all levels.
Starvation and disease killed millions in British India during the Second World War. Why?
In an age of political and religious division that ended in Civil War, Lucius Cary and his circle at Great Tew offered a space for debate and compromise.
On 21 July 356 BC, the day Alexander the Great was said to have been born, the temple burned to the ground.
The devastating fire at Notre-Dame destroyed more than just bricks.
Not content with bringing aqueducts, sanitation and roads, the Romans transformed Britain’s flora and fauna.
How the Nazi persecution of Jews shaped the African-American freedom struggle.
Writing treaties in two languages can lead to unexpected problems.
Christian thinkers whose lives and thoughts connected in 1943, when it looked like the Allies were on top and minds turned to the future.
An intimate understanding of John Buchan with a scholarly reading of the immense mass of his papers
Nicholas Hilliard was a portraitist at the pinnacle of his profession.
The pursuit of astronomical study led a Victorian woman from Surrey to the Indian foothills.
What connects a Hollywood star, a physicist of genius and a recently departed historian?
‘What’s the most important lesson history has taught me? It’s not about you.’
Archaeologists and historians are on the same side, despite what journalists say.