Volume 71 Issue 11 November 2021

Parchman inmates being transported to work in fields near the prison, Mississippi, 1964 © Robert Elfstrom/Villon Films/Getty Images.

Out on Good Behaviour

Mississippi’s governors have had a unique approach to prison labour and prisoner rehabilitation.

A view at Nomuka, Tonga, from the account of James Cook’s third voyage, c. 1784. Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales. Public Domain.

Kings of the Pacific in an Age of Revolution

As revolutions swept across Europe, Polynesian polities also witnessed dramatic changes when monarchies were rebuilt and traditional societies transformed.

The Death of the Library?

Throughout the centuries countless libraries and carefully curated book collections have been dispersed, destroyed or lost.

The Death of Pliny the Elder, 79 AD, coloured engraving, c.1880.

Life Among the Ruins of Pompeii

Tall tales of Pompeii’s lost Roman lives form part of a long history of sensationalism.