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ArticleThe curse of the Boleyns
How Anne’s fall doomed her family
ArticleTHIS ISSUE’S CONTRIBUTORS
Ian Crawford “Intellectually, humanity had understood since Copernicus that we live on a small planet orbiting what has turned out to be an ‘ordinary’ star. But seeing Earth from space made that understanding emotionally real.” Ian...
ArticleTHREE THINGS THAT CAUGHT MY EYE
1. Democratic deficit Weimar is synonymous with Germany’s interwar democracy, so I was surprised to learn from Katja Hoyer’s piece that it was here, in 1926, that the first formal Nazi Party rally took place (page 76). 2. Make love not Cold War
ArticleThe long, hard road to US independence
On the 250th anniversary of the famed Declaration, George Goodwin traces the events that led to America’s iconic break-up letter The US Declaration of Independence was formally adopted on one famous day in July 1776. Yet this celebrated...
ArticleRise of the Anglo-Saxons
How did a hotchpotch of Germanic tribes come to dominate Britain after Roman rule ended? Nick Higham explores the origins of the English Throughout history, many Scots have harboured a lingering mistrust of the English. Plenty in Wales...
ArticleCoveting Canada
Eliga Gould reveals how, from its moment of inception, the US hoped to incorporate British colonies to the north
ArticleThe curse of the Boleyns
Henry VIII’s ill-fated second queen, Anne, was moulded by her controversial, colourful family, says Tracy Borman
ArticlePitch battles
Tony Shaw and Alan McDougall file match reports on eight football games where Cold War tensions kicked off
ArticleThe Weimar experiment
Katja Hoyer explains why Germany’s optimistic interwar dalliance with democracy gave way to Nazism Adolf Hitler could not have been clearer. “I love Weimar,” he proclaimed at the end of 1925. He wasn’t talking about the Weimar Republic that...