Volume 69 Issue 5 May 2019

The life of Robert Parkin Peters: clergyman, would-be academic and one of the most brazen fraudsters of the 20th century.

The voices of forgotten women in Reformation France.

After 800 years, a playful medieval poem still offers lessons in how not to debate. 

A chaotic, menacing assembly of gods and trolls and restless souls.

Can Welsh history be separated from British history, or are they too intertwined?

‘We can’t see our own blindspots, so, as we anatomise those of our predecessors, we perpetuate our own.’

An account of how belief became opinion.

Found guilty of fraud, the French chemist was executed on 8 May 1794.

The work of the historian Norman Cohn has taken on a new resonance. We should heed his warnings.

Lal Ded was a pioneer of Kashmiri poetry, who raised the consciousness of the common people and challenged ideas of caste, religion and gender.