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Islamic Delights

Tim Stanley | Published in History Today Volume 62 Issue 2 February 2012

Fundamentalism has become the face of Islam in the West. It was not always so and need not be in the future, says Tim Stanley.

‘A View of Sydney on Norfolk Island, 1792’. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. Public Domain.

Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island

J.M. Moore | Published in History Today Volume 75 Issue 1 January 2025

As convicts celebrated Queen Victoria’s birthday on remote Norfolk Island, debates raged over the purpose of punishment and the merits of Alexander Maconochi

A Few Bad Apples

Sarah Wise | Published in History Today Volume 70 Issue 8 August 2020

Brutality, corruption and abuses of power in the Metropolitan Police at the turn of the 20th century led to an inquiry – but no reform.