‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
In September 1945, shortly before his arrest by Allied soldiers, Japan’s wartime prime minister Tōjō Hideki was asked by an
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
A Deptford woman named Annie Parker sat in a dank, cold cell in Kent’s Maidstone Gaol in 1879. Jailed for
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
We are familiar with the story of the Indian prince who, in the fifth century BC, devoted his life to
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
In 1918 the American industrialist Henry Ford undertook an auto-camping road trip in the Great Smoky Mountains at the border
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
In December 1900 distressed animal lover ‘V.E.N’ informed fellow readers of The Bazaar magazine about a disturbing incident involving his
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
Was it even a revolt? Afterwards, there were doubts. But in January 1872 the British Empire’s man in Punjab, deputy
A History of Phantom Pain
The 16th-century surgeon Ambroise Paré was used to difficult cases. Having honed his skills on the battlefields of his native
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
‘Small Earthquake in Chile, Not many dead.’ The journalist Claud Cockburn supposedly won a prize for dreaming up this notoriously
Under the Sana’a Skyline by Salwa Mawari illustrated by Mary Charara
For the last 100 days it seems the only time I truly smile is when I see images of Yemen
