From the archive
Could it have been different?
Eric Hobsbawm: Budapest 1956
Taking Sides
John Mullan: on the high road with Bonnie Prince Charlie
What Might Have Happened Upstairs
Mary Beard: Pompeii
‘What a man this is, with his crowd of women around him!’
Hilary Mantel: Springtime for Robespierre
Lenin Shot at Finland Station
Slavoj Žižek: Counterfactuality and the conservative historian