Feature

Durham's Hidden Gems

Dymphna Byrne explores two magnificent museums situated in Durham.

Equestrian portrait of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, c. 17th century. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public Domain.

Aurangzeb versus the East India Company

‘Trade follows the flag’ is a truism of imperial expansion but in the 1680s it was the other way round, as the East India Company attempted to challenge the might of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.

Quack Medicine in Georgian England

Roy Porter looks into medicine in Georgian England where sufferers from the 'Glimmering of the Gizzard' the 'Quavering of the Kidneys' and the 'Wambling Trot' could choose their cures from a cornucopia of remedies.

Benedict Arnold, as a colonel in the Continental Army and hero of the Revolutionary War, by Thomas Hart, 1776. Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. Public Domain

A Patriot For Whom? Benedict Arnold and the Loyalists

The dilemmas of allegiance posed for Americans by the outbreak of war with the British crown led Benedict Arnold, 'the most brilliant soldier of the Continental Army’, into the Loyalist camp.

Country Matters

Dennis Mills examines the importance of census enumerators' books.

Inflation and the Moral Order

The new phenomenon of inflation in 16th-century England not only disrupted the medieval social order, it also challenged the traditional moral censure of usury and capital expansion.

The Old and New Worlds of Mardi Gras

How an all-American celebration evolved from the pre-Lent carnivals of the Old World.

The Politics of Futbol

Duncan Shaw looks at how the entry of Spain into the EEC in 1985 furthered its process of integration into the European community. During the Franco years, the ostracised regime used football to initiate this gradual road towards acceptance. The Catalans and the Basques, however, used football as a means of popular protest.