Volume 74 Issue 11 November 2024

‘What is the most common misconception about my field? That China has “5,000 years” of continuous history.’

November 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of the first passenger trains between London and Paris. What does the history of the Channel Tunnel tell us about Britain’s relationship with its neighbours?

When paying off the Vikings failed to yield lasting peace, on 13 November 1002 king Æthelred ordered the slaughter of England’s Danes instead.

Who Really Wrote the Bible: The Story of the Scribes by William M. Schniedewind asks what authorship meant to the hidden hands behind the Old Testament.

Robert Clive’s death has long been attributed to suicide. What is the evidence?

An enfant terrible shook up Renaissance medicine by denouncing experts and debunking accepted wisdom. Was Paracelsus as radical as he seemed?

The First World War revealed the bad state of Britain’s teeth. Intervention was required to keep the nation biting fit.

In Patria: Lost Countries of South America, Laurence Blair explores nine nations, dissolved or imagined, and what they tell us about Latin America.

Where fraught national histories are concerned, do policies of remembrance and education work, or is it better to wipe the slate clean?

The ancient stones of churches are portals to the past. Each new generation becomes a custodian.