January 2012

In our January issue, Denis Judd examines how George VI's ordinariness inspired the love of the nation.

Martin Johnes considers how history as impacted on the construction of Welsh national identity.

Sheilagh Ogilvie, Markus Küpker and Janine Maegraith explain how German citizens were once forbidden to consume a multitude of desirable goods, and examine the economic consequences.

Roger Moorhouse takes a look at the Wannsee Conference, a meeting of German officials that is widely regarded as the point that the policy of genocide was arrived at.

Thomas Asbridge explains why Christian attempts to lift the Holy Land from Muslim control in the Middle Ages were doomed to fail.