Volume 75 Issue 12 December 2025

In early modern England the time and date was often an informal matter, which had the potential to pose problems.

‘Which moment would I most like to go back to? Just before the Big Bang. I realise there are risks attached.’

After a long battle, Britain’s Sex Discrimination Act came into force in 1975. What did it do for women?

A Popular History of Idi Amin’s Uganda by Derek R. Peterson looks for the ordinary people who kept the regime’s wheels turning.

Finished by the First World War and buried under the nation states that succeeded it, the Habsburg monarchy had survived for centuries despite its obvious faultlines. What held it together?

As the father of descriptive geography, Strabo of Amasia provides a unique view of the early Roman Empire.

African queens and Anglo-Saxon towns, Indira Gandhi and Irish STEM, Celtic Studies and the caste system: 10 more historians choose their favourite new history books of 2025.

Christianity at the Crossroads: The Global Church from the Print Revolution to the Digital Era by David N. Hempton peers beyond the pulpit and into the congregation.

Peasants and popes, free speech and fashion, sentimentality and special forces: the first 10 of 20 historians choose their favourite new history books of 2025.

By the turn of the 20th century Carl Hagenbeck’s Tierpark had revolutionised zoo exhibits – and the exotic animal trade.