In the October issue:
The Last Sikh Queen, Before Empire, The Shanghai Race Club, The First Blind Medical Trials, Cuba, Why Study the Past?
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Though horse racing was a symbol of British colonialism, it became a surprisingly inclusive pastime in China’s major International Settlement.
In the early years of Nazi rule, the vagueness of much Nazi ideology enabled many Germans to see in Nazism what they wanted to see.
It took an Irish Gothic novelist to tie up centuries of demonic mythology surrounding this leathery, nocturnal mammal.
In its earliest days, the East India Company was seen not as a threat to Asia’s elites, but as a means of strengthening their powers.
A Dutch conspiracy trial in the Indonesian archipelago gave birth to a sadly enduring English word.
History can teach, inspire, warn, include and exclude; its uses change to fit the present moment.
The ambitious Sikh queen Jind Kaur faced division among her subjects and the might of the British Empire.
Cures and treatments have always offered potential riches to their inventors. But how was one supposed to know what worked and what didn’t?
