This Month's Magazine
In the April issue:
- Soviet Super Sniper
- Liberia at 200
- The Roman Inquisition
- Kingdoms Come Apart
- What can History teach us about Epidemics?
- Bulls
- Right Wing Populism and France
- Chinese Porcelain
- British Rule in Palestine
Plus reviews and more!
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Selected articles from this issue
Ernest Hemingway’s love of bullfighting bordered on obsession. Did he see his own insecurities reflected in the ring?
Can we learn from history about how diseases spread, and how we respond to them?
What the media missed while covering the discovery of two statues in Rome.
Since the late 19th century, French politics has provided a testing ground for right-wing populism.
With the aim of converting souls rather than punishing them, the Jesuits were vital collaborators in the Roman Inquisition.
The creation of an African American colony was supported by slave holders and abolitionists, but founded by a few dozen black families.
The ‘Guerrilla Queen’ of Soviet Russia became a role model for women in combat.
The path to Britain’s Civil Wars of the 17th century was paved in the three very different realms of England, Scotland and Ireland. But it was in the richest and most populous of these that crisis escalated into conflict.
How Worcestershire sauce changed the way we look at medieval manuscripts.
How Chinese porcelain became a worldwide sensation, changing tastes and the global economy.
What the Easter 1920 riots in Jerusalem revealed about British rule in Palestine.
The long and complicated history of why there are 360 degrees in a circle.
An outsider’s observations from the moments before China’s Cultural Revolution.
Those pushing the burgeoning field of Classical Reception Studies probably hadn’t intended to leave the door ajar for heavy metal.
Historians should remind themselves that quantity and quality are often very different things.
What will future generations judge us most harshly for? Abandoning the rule that truth matters in public life.