This Month's Magazine
In the June issue:
- Inside the medieval brothel
- Has democracy had its day?
- The start of the Cold War
- The life of Max Weber
- When the Romans met the Christians
- Richard III’s counsellors
- Antisemitism and the Labour Party
- The Anglo-Afghan War of 1919
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Selected articles from this issue
The worst kind of government – apart from all the others – faces increasingly tough challenges. Four leading historians consider its future.
What was it like for a Roman to encounter a Christian for the first time? As the Empire reached its greatest extent, Pliny the Younger found himself face-to-face with members of the new religious group.
Against the odds, the Third Anglo-Afghan War led to Afghanistan’s independence.
The story of Richard III’s lieutenants, William Catesby, Sir Richard Ratcliffe and Francis, Viscount Lovell, is one of intrigue, death and a mysterious disappearance.
‘Politics as a Vocation’, a speech made in 1919 by the German sociologist Max Weber, can lay claim to being one of the most influential political statements of the 20th century. Amid global crisis and uncertainty, it remains as relevant as ever.
Just two years after victory in the most murderous war in history, the divisions between the Soviet Union and the Western powers became unbridgeable.
What was life like for medieval prostitutes? A case in the German town of Nördlingen reveals a hellish world of exploitation and violence.
