Volume 55 Issue 8 August 2005

Robert Pearce gives a historian’s-eye view of George Orwell’s classic novel.

Clive Foss looks at the way in which Kemal Atatürk rewrote history as part of his radical modernization of the Turkish nation.

Archaeologist Miles Russell describes recent discoveries which overturn accepted views about the Roman invasion of Britain.

Richard Almond deciphers the meaning of a set of illuminations illustrating an unusual Book of Hours made in Germany around the year 1500.

The Guinness Book of Records was first published on August 27th, 1955.