News from Otherwhere
Anthropology's rise in popularity challenged previous ways of thinking about human development.
Reviews
The Unrefined Regency
Crime and punishment, theatre, sex, war, and empire.
Catching Fuchs
The nuclear physicist who revealed secrets to the Soviets.
There’s Something About Marie
Going beyond the clichés to reveal Marie-Antoinette as a political operator with real influence.
Beds and their Bedfellows
A history from the earliest humans to those occupying ‘the bed of the future’.
Interpreting the Ottoman Empire
The multifarious motives of Europe’s Ottoman scholars.
Bad Company?
Successful leaders or rapacious, racist, corrupt adventurers? A history of the East India Company.
Airy and Rational Animals
The study of song as an imperfect, protean, untameable art form.
Cambodia’s Crimes Unpunished
Confronting the country's darkest hour and looking for answers.
Books of the Year 2019
Covering Hong Kong, the anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, porcine inebriation and the Battle of Algiers, nine historians select their favourite books of the past year.