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Battle of Assandun, showing Edmund Ironside (left) and Cnut the Great. (Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS. 26, fol. 80v)
There is nothing new about political divisions, nor attempts to heal them.

Eleanor Parker

 ‘Is This a Time for Sleep?’, 1883, in which Cholera looms over New York Harbor while Science sleeps 23 © Granger/Bridgeman Images.
Quarantine is intended to protect, but it can also punish.

Edward Willis

William Frederick Yeames, The meeting of Sir Thomas More with his daughter after his sentence of death, 1872.
A letter published in our July 2015 issue.

Hilary Mantel

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Old Port of Marseille, c.1895 © akg-images.

The allure of the sun-burnished boulevards of Marseille remains intact.

Freja Seeking Her Husband, by Nils Blommér, 1852, Stockholm National Museum, Sweden. Nationalmuseum Stockholm/akg-images.

The Norse god who found a new immortality in the stage works of Richard Wagner.

Soviet soldiers in Bornholm, 1945.

The small island of Bornholm gave Stalin a Danish foothold at the end of the Second World War. Why did he give it up?

Women bathing in Brighton, engraving by William Heath, 19th century. Courtesy Wellcome Images.

How long was the presidency of William Henry Harrison? Which country lasted only one day?

Diagram of the Brookes, 18th century. Alamy.

The anniversary of the abolition of slavery reminds us how visible the memory of Britain’s slave trade remains.

A Gypsy encampment, Belvedere Marshes, Kent, 1936 © John Topham/Topfoto

Recent government proposals are merely the latest in a long history of hostility.

John Eliot (ca. 1604–1690) Preaching to the Indians, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The religious politics that reshaped 17th-century England and Scotland and propelled many towards transatlantic migration.

Battle of Assandun, showing Edmund Ironside (left) and Cnut the Great. (Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS. 26, fol. 80v)

There is nothing new about political divisions, nor attempts to heal them.

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Volume 70 Issue 3 March 2020

In the March issue:

  • Shampoo Empire 
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  • A Cure Worse than Disease
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  • The State of the Nation
  • Why is the Public so Obsessed with the Nazis?
  • Escape to Mexico
  • Sexual Eeling
  • Liverpool’s Slave Trade
  • English Saints in Ireland

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