Volume 74 Issue 12 December 2024

The remarkable fall of absinthe: from 19th-century ‘Green Fairy’ to scourge of society.

‘What is the most common misconception about my field? That the history of war is the same as military history.’

On 10 December 1948, after months of negotiation led by Eleanor Roosevelt, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was passed by the UN General Assembly.

Who were the women who fought the decisive battle against racial segregation in the American South?

William Strickland died on 8 December 1598. He was said to have introduced the turkey to England, but the truth followed him to his grave.

How did the People’s Republic of China cope with a literary canon filled with un-communist ideas? Comics called lianhuanhua were the answer, at least for a while.

Unconventional and provocative, did the Dada artist sometimes known as Arthur Cravan save his boldest work for last?

Cook and Colombia, mathematics and motherhood, wealth and warfare: 13 more historians choose their favourite new history books of 2024.

In Church Going: A Stonemason’s Guide to the Churches of the British Isles, Andrew Ziminski deconstructs the humble parish church.

Imperialism and India, spies and seafarers, paganism and the polis: the first 12 of 25 historians choose their favourite new history books of 2024.