January 2023 (Issue 116)

A purported portrait of Elizabeth Báthory as a young woman

General Early Modern

Elizabeth Báthory: a 17th-century ‘serial killer’

Sierra Leone in the mid-19th century – houses and people walking past.

Recaptive Number 11,407 Piecing together the life of a freed slave

The city of Hiroshima, Japan, a few days after the first atom bomb is dropped in August 1945. This clearly demonstrated the apocalyptic potential of the new weapon (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Second World War

The Manhattan Project: your guide to the building of the first atomic bomb

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A small group of Argentine troops survey the scene not far from Port Stanley after arriving in the Falklands by helicopter (Photo by: SeM/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

What if... Argentina had won the Falklands War? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Mary Sophia Money's brother, Robert Henry Money, is believed to have been the murderer 'Robert Hicks Murray'

Nell Darby's historical cold cases The Money Murders . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Orthodox monks (backed by Russia) and Catholic clerics (backed by France) both tried to stake their claim to Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Why did the Crimean War start?

Applying economic pressure and blocking bulky Russian exports helped win the war, says Professor Lambert

Opinion Professor Andrew Lambert on the Crimean War's legacy

Roger Fenton’s assistant, Marcus Sparling, poses with their mobile ‘Photographic Van’

The major innovations of the Crimean War

The Queen distributing the Crimea Medal, Horseguards Parade, London, c1850s, (1888).

How did the Crimean War end?

The Battle of Sinop.

8 battles that shaped the Crimean War

The Charge of the Light Brigade during the Battle of Balaclava, 1854. Artist Hayes, Michael Angelo (1820-1877).

The Crimean War A timeline of key moments

A Japanese tattoo artist at work on a large scale tattoo design on the back of a woman, Japan, circa 1940.

General History

Tattoo history The stories of 11 inked individuals