This Month's Magazine
In the January issue:
- The Inca's Last Stand
- The League of Planets
- The First Shots in the Irish War of Independence
- Misery in the Head
- A Portrait of Empire
- History of Wolves
- Surviving Nuclear War
- Jesus the Feminist
- Plague
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Selected articles from this issue
The most maligned of creatures, since ancient times, wolves have played a central role in mythology.
Shedding past light on recent royal scandal, four historians consider the future of an ancient institution.
The repression in China’s Xinjiang region has deep historical roots.
An Indigenous rebellion in colonial Argentina foreshadowed later risings – and resonates to this day.
A squalid incident in Tipperary set the tone for a bitter conflict.
In the stomach, the mind, or the brain – migraine’s causes and remedies have been debated for 2,000 years.
Three lives from Britain’s 18th-century global empire speak of collaboration, resistance and ambivalence.
Science and superstition collided when an apocalypse was predicted to strike the United States in December 1919.
The 1980 Protect and Survive booklet opened government plans to ridicule.
Carving our names on great monuments is a millennia-old tradition, but why do we do it?
Medieval women’s bodies were a battleground: they were either irretrievably sinful, or they were Christ-like.
Going beyond the clichés to reveal Marie-Antoinette as a political operator with real influence.
A history from the earliest humans to those occupying ‘the bed of the future’.
Anthropology's rise in popularity challenged previous ways of thinking about human development.
No one understood the literary dimension of conflict better than Michael Howard.
‘If I was let loose in the archives of the Archaeological Museum in Naples I might never emerge.’
It is a pity when specialist historians condescend to an enthusiastic public.