Volume 76 Issue 1 January 2026

St Oswald stamping on Cædwalla, from the Abbreviatio chronicorum Angliae, by Matthew Paris, English, 1250-59. British Library/Bridgeman Images.

Oswald of Northumbria: An English Saint in the Alps

The English saint Oswald of Northumbria proved incredibly popular in the medieval German-speaking world. How did he get there?

The Zenith of French Glory; The Pinnacle of Liberty, James Gillray, 1793. Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris. Public Domain.

‘The French Revolution: A Political History’ by John Hardman review

It may not have been the first, argues John Hardiman in The French Revolution: A Political History, but it was the first of its kind.

Tito: Britain’s Man in Belgrade

During the Cold War successive British governments did all they could to maintain a friendship with Tito’s Yugoslavia. Why was the communist strongman so important to Westminster?