Volume 49 Issue 10 October 1999

Asa Briggs

Daniel Snowman meets the co-founder of the University of Sussex and doyen of Victorian history.

Little Black Sambo is Published

October 31st, 1899

Stowical Saxons Reveal their Secrets

Jim Kelsey uncovers a unique Anglo-Saxon collection, enabled by a supportive local council.

Tremain’s Terrain

Rose Tremain reveals how her fascination with the seventeenth century was the key that unlocked the world of her acclaimed historical novels.

Medieval Barbarism?

Who Was Hornblower?

John D. Grainger investigates the creation of C.S. Forester’s naval hero of the Napoleonic Wars - and identifies not one but two Hornblower originals.

"Selection" of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at Auschwitz-II-Birkenau in German-occupied Poland, May/June 1944, during the final phase of the Holocaust. Jews were sent either to work or to the gas chamber.

Auschwitz and the British

When did the British government know of the true role of Auschwitz-Birkenau in the ‘Final Solution’?

Time and Time Again in Java

Revolutions and changes of dynasty seem to have happened with the regularity of clockwork on the island of Java. M.C. Ricklefs investigates.

The Death of Edgar Allan Poe

Charles Baudelaire described Edgar Allan Poe's death, on October 7th, 1849, as 'almost a suicide, a suicide prepared for a long time'.

Rebuilding Dresden

Rebuilding the Frauenkirche church which was destroyed in the 1945 Dresden bombings.