Before the Wheel
Nicholas Russell on environment lessons from development history
Volume 40 Issue 3 March 1990
Phoenix Rising
Damien Gregory explores jerry-building at Hampton Court
The Athenian State Prison
Paul Cartledge reconstructs the prison and execution-site of Socrates
Bookworms and Acid Pens
Michael Leech discusses the paper tigers and fragile history of Princeton University's collection.
Exodus and Return
C.C. Aronsfeld on Jewish exodus and persecution, 800 years after the massacre in York
London's Charity Schools, 1690-1730
'The greatest Instances of publick Spirit the Age has produced', but confessional strife between Anglicans and Nonconformists, as well as the bitter battles of Whigs and Tories, was the stimulus for an educational programme for the poor. Craig Rose investigates.
Liverpool and the American Civil War
Sentiment, profit and commercial laissez-faire bound the merchants of England's busiest port ever closer to the rebel confederacy across the Atlantic after 1861. John D. Pelzer explains how and why.
Oswald Mosley as Entrepreneur
When money for Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists began to dry up in the late 1930s, he turned to novel schemes for fund-raising. James and Patience Barnes recount the intriguing story.