Volume 74 Issue 7 July 2024

Was the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 inevitable?

The Paris Olympics of 1900 celebrated not just sporting excellence, but France’s might.

‘The most important lesson history has taught me? Destroy your drafts and personal papers, because one day a graduate student will comb through them looking for incriminating titbits.’

On 10 July 1873, decadent duo Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud’s poetic frenzy ended with a gunshot.

In Liberty, Equality, Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution, Anne Higonnet brings three dedicated followers of fashion to the fore.

Was Sir Thomas More born on Milk Street – and does it matter?

Does a state need a book of rules by which to operate? And who are those rules for, anyway?

For those learned in medieval medicine and astronomy, the dog days of July heralded dangerous times.

Liberty’s Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America by Amir Alexander explains how the grid system put the United States on the map.

In a BBC interview on 1 July 1952, self-taught linguist Michael Ventris announced that he had deciphered the Linear B script of Minoan Crete.