Volume 68 Issue 9 September 2018

From the practical idealism of early municipal reformers to the tragedy of Grenfell Tower. 

The British public are obsessed with the First World War, but know little about how it was brought to an end.

Sweets made of ice or snow have been with us for millennia, evolving slowly into the modern chilly treat.

Four new studies challenge familiar tropes to consider some important but lesser-known areas of the women’s suffrage movement. 

A contemporary of Hitler, Franco and Mussolini, Salazar is remembered by some of his compatriots as the greatest figure in the nation’s history. Why?

The arrival of Napoleon’s troops in Venice in 1797 instigated one of the biggest plunders in the history of art. 

Can the study of the past really help us to understand the present?

Methodism gained great popularity in the 18th century, but its followers were thought enthusiastic to the point of insanity, posing a serious threat to the established church.

French was the only language worth speaking in medieval Britain – and not just by the upper classes.