Hotel Days
Diplomatic negotiations at the 1921 Cairo Conference carved out a new geostrategic order.
Volume 73 Issue 1 January 2023
Opium for the Masses
In Republican China, amid the chaos of dynastic collapse and war, opium became a rare stable currency, yielding huge riches for those who knew how to work the system.
Joan of Arc’s Trial Begins
The interrogations at the heresy trial began in Rouen on 9 January 1431.
Care in the Community
Though often constrained by limited medical knowledge, 18th-century communities offered practical and emotional support to those experiencing mental distress.
Think About It
The seductions and delusions of mass media, consumerism, ‘group think’, advertising, opinion research and conspiracy theories.
Utopian Dreams, Earthly Realities
Utopian societies promise a new way of living, but are they doomed to fail?
Why Europe? Y. Pestis?
How the societies that the Black Death affected were set on a path to global expansion.
Hawk this Way
London used to ring with the cries of street sellers. Changes for the city brought changes to their way of life.
Polished Off
A panoramic portrait of Józef Piłsudski, the man who ‘towers over modern Poland’.
Stealing a Living
Theft in East Germany was so common as to be nicknamed ‘the people’s sport’. Why were citizens of the GDR so light-fingered?