Volume 70 Issue 5 May 2020

How important was China’s senior diplomat to his nation’s rise to global power, or is it too early to say?

As Britain faced the prospect of food shortages in 1917, panic mounted. One solution was to redeploy policemen to plough the land.

Four historians consider what the past might tell us about everyday responses to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Fundamental things apply in a time of crisis.