Death of a Medieval Lover
Peter Abelard, lover of Heloise, died on 21 April 1142.
Volume 71 Issue 4 April 2021
‘The Fiume Crisis’ by Dominique Kirchner Reill review
The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire by Dominique Kirchner Reill explores the complexity of ‘Europe’s smallest successor state’.
Turn on, Tune in, Fight Back
How the humble radio station organised resistance, inspired the masses and countered powerful settler propaganda.
Is There Too Much Military History?
It is among the most commercial as well as maligned fields of history. Four distinguished scholars consider its value – and its future.
Sheppard’s Warning
A thief who had been dead for more than a century caused a moral panic in the theatres of Victorian London.
Long Division
The tension between colonial government and the work of missionaries characterised British colonialism in Nigeria.
The Poet as Daemon
The radicalising dangers of reading and writing poetry.
In Plain Sight
A harrowing account of unhidden paedophilia.
Meeting an Urgent Need
The First World War threw widows and their brothers-in-law together, but their marriages were considered incestuous.
Pigeon Racing: A Miner’s World?
Men who spent their working lives underground found a new world of freedom in racing birds.