In the October issue:
Churchill, Roosevelt and the End of the French Empire, the Court of the ‘Sin King’, Taiwan, Mary Hamilton and George IV, Poland in the Mountains, Menstruation in the 19th century, Uruguay, South Africa in the 1960s.
Plus: reviews, opinion, crossword and much more!
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In the decades before the First World War, Polish mountaineering became a form of nationalism for a lowland people.
Mao Zedong once said that Taiwan should be independent, but the Chinese Communist Party has since changed its mind. How Chinese is Taiwan?
The correspondence between Mary Hamilton and the future George IV is often seen as evidence of a harmless crush in the Georgian court. It was nothing of the sort.
Eighty years ago, the Atlantic Charter set out the terms for the decolonisation of French North Africa.
Ethel Rosenberg is revealed as a loving mother, a committed communist and a talented performer.
The impact and long-term legacy of Uruguay’s progressive leader.
