Volume 35 Issue 1 January 1985

‘The Death of General Gordon (Khartoum, 26 January 1885)’, etching by H. Dicksee after George W. Joy, 1897. Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. Public Domain.

Gordon of Khartoum: The Making of an Imperial Martyr

The Victorians glorified Gordon of Khartoum. But the reality of his role in the Anglo-Sudanese War was considerably less heroic.

'Scotching the Brut' - The Early History of Britain

Roger A. Mason on the myths and power of Scotland's line of kings

Reading History: Anglo-Saxon Kingship

Simon Keynes examines the variety of books on Anglo-Saxon rulers.