This Month's Magazine
In the October issue:
- Beyond Good and Evil
- The Poet Who Saw Edith Cavell Die
- Holy Women and the Rise of Royal Power in France
- The Great Dictators
- A Spiritual Wilderness
- Who's Afraid of the Jazz Monster
- A History of Chop Suey
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Selected articles from this issue
There has been no shortage of historical events put forward to explain Britain’s current political crisis, but do any of them seriously inform debate?
Hong Kong’s current extradition law crisis is not the first that the territory has faced.
A dish which arrived with the Gold Rush, spread with the railway and endured prohibition was Chinese by origin, but claimed by America.
As a frontline soldier in the First World War, the German artist Otto Dix fell under the spell of the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche and his assault on Christian morality.
How did an executed English nurse become the unlikely protector of the German poet who pronounced her dead?
Medieval French monarchs used – and abused – the charismatic power of religious women.
What do the tyrants of the 20th century have in common? Terror, confusion and quasi-religious followings.
In the Victorian countryside, what did going to church on Sundays actually mean?
On 8 October 1856, a British flagged Chinese vessel was seized and the Second Opium War began.
For many Americans, jazz was the music of demons, devils and things that go bump in the night.
The little-known republic was a short-lived experiment in constitutional democracy.
Latin America conjures up images of constant political turmoil, powered by endless revolutions. But this is misleading.
A new book presents an account of Charlemagne, year by year, without hindsight.
Potosí’s fame came not only from its wealth, but also its notoriety for appalling working conditions.
Many of the ideas that shape football today were developed in the 1920s by a generation of Hungarian coaches.
How a government-sponsored network of civilian agents complemented Wellington's own intelligence gathering.
The largest of Pompeii's legalised Lupanars is the only surviving ‘purpose-built’ Roman brothel.
History tells us that, in order to prosper, civilisations must embrace change.
What’s the most important lesson history has taught me? That we learn nothing from it.
What happened when a historian took the ‘Life in the UK’ test for British citizenship?