Sun and Stone
A new cultural history of Sicily, the key to the Mediterranean.
Volume 71 Issue 10 October 2021
The End of the French Empire in North Africa
Signed at the height of the Second World War, the Atlantic Charter set out the terms for the decolonisation of French North Africa.
This Is Not a Love Story
The correspondence between Mary Hamilton and the future George IV is often seen as evidence of a harmless crush in the Georgian court. It was nothing of the sort.
A History of China’s Claim to Taiwan
Mao Zedong once said that Taiwan should be independent, but the Chinese Communist Party has since changed its mind on the ‘renegade province’. How Chinese is Taiwan?
How Poland Found Itself in the Mountains
In the decades before the First World War, Polish mountaineering became a form of nationalism for a lowland people.