The June 2025 issue is a 25-year milestone, celebrated with the article 25 lessons from 25 years. A range of historical experts nominate the most transformative historical discoveries since the year 2000. The first five are
1 Women played major roles in the Viking Age
2 Britain has been culturally diverse for far longer than most believed
3 The Tudors got Richard III wrong
4 Magna Carta was only part of a truly revolutionary settlement
5 We ignore the past at our peril.
The first, and number 13, Mesolithic Europeans had dark skin and blue eyes, mention DNA. For many of the others, technology has been the key to transformation.
Women’s roles are recognized, both as the subjects and authors among the 25.
There’s the other side, an article on Victorian Britain’s fearless female felons. Rosalind Crone probes five crimes with female perpetrators from the 18th and 19th centuries: poisoning and theft, counterfeiting coins, murder, fraud, and serial swindling.
Oooh – hopefully our library will get that issue soon! I know I can look at it online, but prefer the physical magazine.
I had a subscription for many years during the early-mid 2000s – easier these days to read the library copy as I was running out of places to store the magazines. Plus, delivery became very erratic.
Indeed it is a great issue. I Have not even had time to read my copy for more than a scan. A much valued magazine for anyone interested in history but one that has been erratic in its delivery to Canada. I know pay the U.K publisher directly instead of the U.S. branch of the publisher.
Now, if there is a postal strike ….. ahhh