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.
The court of William Rufus, son of the Conqueror, was known as a ‘brothel of male prostitutes’.
While science and medicine advance, myths around menstruation persist.
A series of betrayals, atrocities and trials in the 1960s changed opposition politics forever.
Afghanistan has one of the richest architectural legacies on earth. Its future, like that of the country and its people, is uncertain.
Questioning the powerful Tata dynasty’s claims for a ‘different kind of capitalism’.
Fought on 7 October 1571, the great sea battle between Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire was seen as a pivotal moment in history. Have its consequences been exaggerated?
The 1930s spy ring who informed on technological advances in the defence industries.
E.H. Carr’s belief that the histories we get depend on the questions we ask is more relevant than ever.
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, was obsessed with falconry. This led him to write a truly revolutionary book on the subject.
After the death of Harold on 14 October 1066, Edgar Ætheling’s claim to the throne gained support.
The cross-dressing saga of the Queen of Lydia and the most formidable of Classical heroes.
The medieval parish church was the meeting point of many different things, both sacred and secular.
