Volume: 57 Issue: 5

Mark Bryant looks at the work of the Punch artist whose drawings symbolized British anger over the Indian Mutiny and established his own reputation.

Vic Gatrell, recently awarded the PEN/Hessell-Tiltman History Book of the Year award 2006 for his book on the satire of 18th- and early 19th-century Britain, explains...

The historical presence of South Asian men and women in Britain has been ignored for too long, says Shompa Lahiri, who has investigated their experiences during the...

Patricia Cleveland-Peck goes on the trail of the scientist Linnaeus, whose tercentenary this year is being marked in Sweden at a variety of locations associated...

The Indian Mutiny and Rebellion, which broke out 150 years ago this month, was the greatest revolt against British imperialism of its century. Joseph Coohill...

Jonathan Harris explores the historical continuities of a city that has been the capital of two major world empires for over 1,500 years, by looking at the...

The great historical enthusiasm of our time is for researching the history of our own families: people across the globe are concocting – and sharing – great family...

John Jackson exhumes the extraordinary case of a middle-aged woman from Derby convicted of plotting to murder the Prime Minister.

Nick Barratt introduces an ambitious new historical website.

Paul Preston remembers the journalist and Basque sympathizer who broke the news of the bombing of Guernica, and whose impassioned reports from the front in the...

R.S. Taylor Stoermer takes a transatlantic perspective on the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707.

May 17th, 1257

On April 26th 1937, the Spanish town of Guernica was almost destroyed by German bombers. In this article from our 2007 archive, Paul Preston remembers the...

Gerald Howson tells the tale of the Spanish republican who invented a jet engine and died during Franco’s coup.

Twenty-five years ago, British forces won an unlikely victory to drive the Argentinians out of the Falklands. Brian James searches for the Task Force’s secret...

David Carpenter introduces a major new resource for the understanding of 13th-century history.

Derek Wilson looks at the great religious reformer and asks why his life and work have seemed so ­significant to so many diverse people for almost 500 years.