ArticleStrangers and aliens in Tudor England
Life as an outsider in Henry VIII’s realm
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ArticleEven wilder than Bridgerton
Inside the scandalous world of Georgian masquerade
ArticleMARILYN MONROE
How a screen icon forged her own legend
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In recent times we’ve become all too aware of the devastating power of pandemics. And Covid-19 has also sparked an increased interest in historical outbreaks, in particular the medieval Black Death. Thomas Asbridge has written a major new...
ArticleBlack Death in the east
While the plague pandemic ravaged Europe, it also took a heavy toll in the Muslim world – though with different consequences, says Thomas Asbridge The Black Death is infamous for ravaging the population of Europe – yet it was most lethal in...
ArticleWilder than Bridgerton
Meghan Kobza reveals how elite masquerades featuring extravagant – sometimes scandalous – outfits titillated and outraged Georgian London
ArticleAthens v Sparta
Why did these erstwhile allies become enemies? Adrian Goldsworthy traces the origins of the Peloponnesian War
ArticleOffa’s image problem
The bellicose eighth-century king of the Mercians was neither glorious hero nor simple villain, says Rory Naismith
ArticleBlonde ambition
Lucy Bolton explains why Marilyn Monroe wasn’t just a pretty face but an actor of intelligence, talent and tenacity
ArticleGay News on trial
David Nash revisits an explosive legal case sparked by a provocative poem about Jesus Christ in a gay newspaper