A Cure for Wellness
Eminent doctors and notorious charlatans vied for sick patients to treat in the cut-throat medical marketplace of Georgian England.
History Today
Many Happy Returns
James Stuart, Jacobite pretender to the throne, campaigned for the Jacobite cause with dancing and parties.
The Madman in the White House by Patrick Weil review
Delusions of grandeur: a ‘psychobiography’ of Woodrow Wilson.
Birth of a Pastry Chef
Born into poverty on 8 June 1783, Antonin Carême’s spectacular confectionary constructions made him patissier to royalty.
Never Again by Andrew I. Port review
‘Real world’ German responses to postwar genocide.
February 1933 by Uwe Wittstock review
Germany in February 1933 as it unfolded day-by-day.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Tunguska
Was it antimatter? Aliens? An atomic blast? The weird and wonderful theories as to the cause of the Tunguska event show no sign of drying up. Why?
The War on Dogs
The dog cull of 1760 divided London: were dogs man’s best friend, or plague-ridden pests?
Percy Fawcett and the Lost City
First Tenochtitlán, then Cuzco, then Machu Picchu – why shouldn’t cities paved with gold be discovered in South America? At least Percy Fawcett believed so.
Virtuous Bankers by Anne L. Murphy review
‘A day in the life’ of the 18th-century Bank of England.