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Letters

Your letters LETTER OF THE MONTH Pirates and pen names Sam Willis’s entertaining article about Charles Johnson’s scandalous works popularising robbers, pirates and highwaymen (Murder and Mayhem in Georgian Britain, March) reignites a long controversy about the true identity of the author. Although the so-called “Captain” Johnson demonstrates a sound knowledge of seafarers’ speech and […]

Kavita Puri’s Hidden histories

HIDDEN HISTORIES Kavita Puri explores lesser-known stories from our past “A broad reckoning with the Cultural Revolution is still far off in China” I spend a lot of my time thinking about historical memory, about when we choose to speak – or to forget – both as individuals and collectively. I also think about how […]

Michael Wood on… The history carried in our landscapes

COMMENT Michael Wood on… The history carried in our landscapes “Destroy a river and you also lose its past, part of our collective memory” The other day, I took the District Line to Barking for an urban history walk along one of London’s forgotten rivers, the Roding. This waterway flows into the Thames at Barking […]

Q&A: Gordon Corera on the Iraq War

Q&A “The early 2000s was a strange era of fear and terror – and the relentless drive towards conflict in Iraq was very much a part of that” Twenty years on from the Iraq War, a BBC Radio 4 series sets out to chart its causes and consequences. Matt Elton spoke to its presenter, Gordon […]

What happens to heritage sites following a catastrophe?

THE CONVERSATION COMPILED BY MATT ELTON BEHIND THE NEWS What happens to heritage sites following a catastrophe? As efforts continue to care for survivors of the devastating earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria in February, numerous historic sites in the region are also at risk. Katherine Pangonis explains how heritage organisations work to save ancient […]

Anniversaries

ANNIVERSARIES Helen Carr highlights events that took place in April in history 23 APRIL 1349 The prestigious Order of the Garter first gathers Edward III founds an elite club to celebrate war and encourage his nobles to fight in France Honi soi qui mal y pense” – “Shame on him who thinks evil of it”. […]

Welcome

APRIL 2023 In this issue… You only have to browse the TV schedules or the shelves of your local book shop to appreciate our enormous fascination with crime. Whether in fact or fiction, we can’t stop devouring tales of lawbreakers and those who seek to bring them to justice. And this is no new phenomenon: […]