Volume 64 Issue 10 October 2014

Stockings were an instant hit when they were first sold on October 27th 1939.

The artist died on October 26th, 1764.

Hanna Czarnocka, an octogenarian now living in London, recalls her part in one of the most courageous resistance actions of the Second World War.

The opening battle of the First World War was won by the Bank of England before the British had so much as fired a shot.

Scots need not look far to find a successful example of ‘devo-max’.

Marcella Pellegrino Sutcliffe examines the political machinations behind a visit to England in 1864 of the Italian patriot and ‘liberator’, darling of the English establishment and radicals alike.