A Spiritual Wilderness
In the Victorian countryside, what did going to church on Sundays actually mean?
Volume 69 Issue 10 October 2019
Testing Times
What happened when a historian took the ‘Life in the UK’ test for British citizenship?
Building the Roman Republic
The little-known republic was a short-lived experiment in constitutional democracy.
Hungary’s Golden Squad
Many of the ideas that shape football today were developed in the 1920s by a generation of Hungarian coaches.
Augustus Closes the Temple of Janus
Rome’s First Citizen brings peace to its territories.
Are There Any Meaningful Historical Analogies for Brexit?
There has been no shortage of historical events put forward to explain Britain’s current political crisis, but do any of them seriously inform debate?
The Poet Who Saw Edith Cavell Die
How did the executed English nurse Edith Cavell become the unlikely protector of the German poet who pronounced her dead?
Wellington’s Spy Network
How a government-sponsored network of civilian agents complemented Wellington's own intelligence gathering.
Who’s Afraid of the Jazz Monsters?
For many Americans, jazz was the music of demons, devils and things that go bump in the night.
The Great Dictators
What do the tyrants of the 20th century have in common? Terror, confusion and quasi-religious followings.