The Many Deaths of Captain Kidd
Our fascination with pirates and the search for buried treasure continues to make headlines.
Volume 65 Issue 7 July 2015
The Conference on African Peoples
A multiracial community of activists began organising public meetings and rallies in the 1930s, paving the way for the Pan-African Congress of 1945.
The Myth of 'Moral' Food
There was no period in the past when people did not try to manipulate nature in order to provide a more varied and nutritious diet, argues Annie Gray. We will need similarly ingenious methods in the future.
Magna Carta: The Atlantic Crossing
In no country is Magna Carta held in greater reverence than in the United States, playing a crucial role in founding the republic’s political and legal system.
The Weimar Republic: A Failed State?
The archetypal image of the Weimar Republic is one of political instability, economic crisis and debauched hedonism. The cliché is being challenged.
The Monkey Trial
Evolution and religion went head-to-head in a landmark case of 1925.
Simon de Montfort and the Origins of Parliament
Just half a century on from Magna Carta, a radical noble, part idealist, part megalomaniac, came into conflict with King John’s son, Henry III. The result, argues Nigel Saul, was a form of assembly which shapes English political life to this day.
The Road to Runnymede
Magna Carta was born of the loss of King John’s French territories and his increasingly desperate – and expensive – attempts to regain them.