In the June issue:
Black Death, Alfred the Great, Victorian Children’s Books, Dragomans, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, No Man’s Land, the Mau Mau Uprising, Women and the Birth of England’s Stock Market.
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For wealthy tourists travelling to the Middle East in the 19th century, the services of a dragoman were an essential purchase. Yet the often difficult lives of these local agents and guides remain elusive.
In uniting the peoples of Wessex and Mercia, the celebrated king left an ideological legacy of lasting importance.
The medieval approach to emergency planning may offer lessons for the 21st century.
Dressing in historical clothes can reveal things about the past that no book can.
Illustrated picture books in Victorian England reached new aesthetic heights. But was it always for the benefit of the children?
Wedged between Russia, Prussia and Austria, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth faced extinction in the 18th century.
The spiritual power of medieval relics meant that Jerusalem, or a dragon, could be remade anywhere.
A Victorian homage to a Renaissance master became one of the world’s most reproduced images.
How events in British India were leveraged in the debate over slavery.
When people are returned to the historical record, they regain their humanity.
Four historians consider whether the experience of the pandemic has changed their views on the nature of historical crises.
The Jewish women who played a vital role in the Polish resistance against the Nazis.
Defying categorisation since its discovery, was the platypus a mammal, a reptile, or something else?
The varied social, economic and institutional conditions that shaped science over more than two centuries.
We ask 20 questions of leading historians on why their research matters, one book everyone should read and their views on historical drama …
The monks at the church of St Cuthbert were taken by surprise on 8 June 793.
The long history of no man’s land, from lawlessness and desolation to hope and regrowth.
The British government sought to hide the brutality of its conduct during the Kenya Emergency. Previously hidden files reveal an unpalatable truth.
Hattie McDaniel, the first African American to win an Oscar, was born on 10 June 1893.
