In our October 2025 issue, on sale 4 September 2025

How Carthage made Rome

Eve MacDonald reveals how the two ancient superpowers helped define each other

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Meet the assassins

Steve Tibble introduces the peerless medieval killers whose name has echoed down the centuries

Stolen crown?

Tracy Borman offers a new take on the Stuart succession that followed the death of Elizabeth I

Hidden hands

Victoria Bateman explores why women’s economic contributions have often been overlooked

A year of kings

Caitlin Ellis considers which of the many contenders in 1066 had the strongest claim to England’s throne

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The Stalingrad of Africa

Saul David contends that the Tunisian campaign was pivotal to the outcome of the Second World War

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