William Wood: Sinner or Sinned Against?
Having failed to introduce a new Irish coinage, writes John S. Powell, this ambitious projector set out to revolutionize contemporary iron-production.
Volume 29 Issue 10 October 1979
Thomas Hariot: American Adventurer and Renaissance Scientist
Francis J. Bremer introduces a true Renaissance man; Thomas Hariot, man of action and ideas.
The Marseilles Murders, 1934
Stephen Clissold uncovers a brutal crime with its roots deep in the rank soil of Balkan politics.
The Fall of the Noble House of Desmond, Part II: 1579-1583
Tracked down to a ‘hut in the cavern of a rock’, writes J.J.N. McGurk, Desmond met his death at the hands of fellow Irishmen.
The Death of John Hampden
In 1828, writes John Adair, the great patriot’s tomb was rudely disturbed by an enquiring Whig historian.
The Abolition of Purchase in the British Army
The purchase system, writes Robert Woodall, was regarded by its opponents as the main obstacle to the creation of professional officer corps.
Shrines and Pilgrimages Before the Reformation
During the Reformation, writes Christine King, Tudor agents demolished many venerated shrines, and made great use of the frauds and trickeries that they claimed to have detected.
Not Waiting Like A Bed of Oysters: The American Historical Society
When the founders of the American Historical Society discussed their plans in 1791, writes Elisabeth Linscott, they determined ‘to seek and find, to preserve and communicate’, the precious records of their country’s past.