Volume 58 Issue 1 January 2008

The United States’ participation in military conflict has had unexpected results, and often has produced very different political outcomes to those originally intended.

Germany's new Chancellor took power on 30 January 1933.

The ill-suited couple were wed on January 25th, 1308.

Richard Cavendish remembers how France took Calais, the last continental possession of England, on January 7th, 1558.

Mahatma Gandhi was shot on 30 January 1948 by the Hindu fanatic Nathuram Godse. His death reverberated across the globe.

Helen Rappaport visits the town on the Russian-Siberian border that has become a focus for Romanov pilgrimage.

York Membery remembers John By, the brilliant British military engineer responsible for building the 175-year-old Rideau Canal.

Suzanne Bardgett, director of the Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, reports on this ambitious new facility which opened in October.

A.S.H. Smyth witnesses the first Meskel Festival of Ethiopia’s Third Millennium, in the ancient capital of Gonder.