Our Friend, the Fraud
The life of Robert Parkin Peters: clergyman, would-be academic and one of the most brazen fraudsters of the 20th century.
Volume 69 Issue 5 May 2019
Stifled Screams
The voices of forgotten women in Reformation France.
For Argument’s Sake
After 800 years, a playful medieval poem still offers lessons in how not to debate.
The Wild Hunt of Odin
A chaotic, menacing assembly of gods and trolls and restless souls.
Us and Them
Can Welsh history be separated from British history, or are they too intertwined?
On the Spot: Emma Smith
‘We can’t see our own blindspots, so, as we anatomise those of our predecessors, we perpetuate our own.’
I'm A Believer
An account of how belief became opinion.
Antoine Lavoisier Guillotined
Found guilty of fraud, the French chemist was executed on 8 May 1794.
Cohn the Canary
The work of the historian Norman Cohn has taken on a new resonance. We should heed his warnings.
Speaking her Mind
Lal Ded was a pioneer of Kashmiri poetry, who raised the consciousness of the common people and challenged ideas of caste, religion and gender.