Volume 71 Issue 10 October 2021

A new cultural history of Sicily, the key to the Mediterranean.

Eighty years ago, the Atlantic Charter set out the terms for the decolonisation of French North Africa.

The correspondence between Mary Hamilton and the future George IV is often seen as evidence of a harmless crush in the Georgian court. It was nothing of the sort. 

Mao Zedong once said that Taiwan should be independent, but the Chinese Communist Party has since changed its mind on the ‘renegade province’. How Chinese is Taiwan?

In the decades before the First World War, Polish mountaineering became a form of nationalism for a lowland people.