Publication of A Christmas Carol
The first edition of 6,000 copies was published on 19 December 1843.
Volume 71 Issue 12 December 2021
Half a Life
The remarkable adolescence of the Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen.
Crimes of Fashion
Clothes in early modern England could quite literally be to die for.
Escape to the Country
An Essex farm built on religious and political ideals in a war-torn world.
An Oxford Resurrection
Anne Greene survived her execution on 14 December 1650.
On the Spot: Clare Jackson
‘A rising generation of ‘new diplomatic historians’ are reimagining diplomatic history.’
‘Traitor King’ by Andrew Lownie review
From gay orgies to Nazi sympathies, Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor by Andrew Lownie picks up the story post-Abdication.
How Father Christmas Found his Reindeer
It took a long while for Rudolph and the other reindeer to team up with Santa Claus. But once they did, there was no stopping them.
All Too Graphic
Leaked photographs of colonial atrocities during the Malayan ‘Emergency’ shocked postwar Britain.
Y Byd Newydd
From Ohio’s farmlands to Pennsylvania’s coalfields: how Welsh is America?