Volume 55 Issue 7 July 2005

Graham Gendall Norton travels in search of those who fought for the rights of all.

Laurent Joffrin looks at the paradoxes surrounding a man who has fascinated the French for two hundred years.

Christopher Woodward considers the continuing power exerted by Napoleon on the French and British during his exile on St Helena up till, and beyond, his death.

David Prior of the Parliamentary Archives explains why we should be thinking about the Gunpowder Plot unseasonably early, this year.

The last woman hanged in Britain was executed on 13 July 1955.