This Month’s Magazine

In the current issue:

Britain’s war on pirates, Napoleon’s man in Haiti, the lost Tudor Domesday book, the First Anglo-Burmese War, medieval nostalgia, and what we get wrong about Byzantium.

Plus: reviews, opinion, crossword and much more!

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March 2024

SELECTED ARTICLES FROM THIS ISSUE

The First Anglo-Burmese War

In March 1824 the East India Company declared war on Burma, the opening salvo in a series of conflicts that would see one empire fall, another expand and leave divisive wounds still felt today.

The Lost Tudor Domesday Book

Once maligned as a record ‘of the dullest kind’, a 1535 audit of Church wealth – the Valor ecclesiasticus – offers a unique view of England’s religious, social and cultural life just months after the break with Rome.

Putting Pirates on Trial

Mutiny and murder at sea ended in capture for the crew of the pirate ship Revenge. Their trial was a deliberate display of the authority of the British state. How did it unfold?