Volume 51 Issue 2 February 2001

Peter Gray and Kendrick Oliver review the debate surrounding the commemoration of historical disasters.

Australian prospectors struck gold on 12 February 1851.

Mary Ann Steggles recalls the circumstances of the many monuments to Queen Victoria that were erected in India, and traces their fate.

After a failed coup d'état against Elizabeth I, Robert Devereux was beheaded at the Tower of London on 25 February 1601