Volume 38 Issue 4 April 1988

Julie Richards-Williams examines the millennium of Christianity in Russia

Missionary, failed MP, counter-revolutionary, Buddhist abbot – Bernard Wasserstein tracks an extraordinary character through his secret lives across the ideological and international battleground of the early twentieth century.

Clive Emsley discovers the Victorian underworld and the attempts to combat it.

Ann Hills looks at history at the local level in Dorset

G.R. Dunstan discovers the moral status of the human embryo throughout history and how judgments have been linked to the scientific understanding of the time.

Dymphna Byrne looks forward to the 400th anniversary of the Spanish Armada

Proud patriots perhaps, but were the irregular forces in Spain's war against Napoleon a help or a hindrance? Charles Esdaile investigates.