In the August issue:
A Witness to the French Revolution, Nazis Enter History, The Fall of Tenochtitlan, Victorian Tourists, Women in the Greek War of Independence, Dennis the Menace, Benjamin Banneker.
Plus: reviews, opinion, crossword and much more!
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The visitors’ books of 19th-century hotels, pubs and inns show Victorians on holiday, revealing them to be irreverent pleasure seekers, capable of highfalutin pomposity and touristic wrath.
Two heroes of the 1821 Greek Revolution found themselves cast out of the national pantheon because of their gender. In the centuries that followed, their legends would be used to justify a range of nationalist causes.
The recently discovered chronicle of an opinionated, elderly aristocrat provides a vivid portrayal of Paris during the most febrile days of the French Revolution.
Whether it was a conquest or an invasion, the events that took place in the Aztec capital 500 years ago are in desperate need of reappraisal.
Will current crises make it possible to study the ‘uniquely evil’ Third Reich as if it were just another period of the past?
How has ‘the world’s wildest boy’ survived the rise of television, increased cultural consumption and the digital age?
An unprecedented force of 86,000 men fought against Hannibal’s Carthaginian army on 2 August 216 BC.
