Contents
FEBRUARY 2011
FEATURES
20 The heroic traitor Mark Nicholls reveals how Elizabethan hero Sir Walter Ralegh fell foul of her successor with fatal consequences
29 Good neighbours? With the Six Nations on the way, Martin Johnes considers the changing state of Anglo-Welsh relations
34 At the edge of reason Alun Withey and Chris Evans show how shaving practices reflected wider trends in Georgian Britain
40 Mothers’ tokens of love John Styles examines objects left with babies at the Foundling Hospital in 18th-century London
44 Jerusalem: Blood and gold Simon Sebag Montefiore on the troubled history of the holy city
48 Gallipoli: What went wrong? Peter Hart explores the reasons for the failure of the First World War expedition against the Ottoman empire
50 The madness of the Regency Behind the jollity of Jane Austen’s novels lay a period of uncertainty and unrest, as Stella Tillyard explains
56 Kidnapped in Iceland How 17th-century pirates from the Barbary Coast raided Iceland and sent hundreds into a life of slavery
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77 TV&Radio What’s on in February
Out&About 80 Where history happened: The Black Death 86 Ten things to do this month 88 Holiday ideas
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