Contents

4 Reviews

5 Editorial (Read article for free)

6 The British Empire on trial – Gregory Gifford (Read article)

12 Zulu and the end of Empire – Nicolas Kinloch (Read article)

17 Legacies of the Cement Armada – Steven Pierce (Read article)

22 The Christian Kingdoms of Nubia and Ethiopia: neighbouring strangers? – Adam Simmons (Read article)

28 History Abridged: Language and the African continent (Read article)

30 What did it mean to be a city in early modern Germany? – Alexander Collin (Read article)

35 Reviews

36 The death of a hero: the injuries and the demise of Vice-Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson – Michael Crumplin (Read article)

42 Real Lives: Robert and Thomas Gayer-Anderson: moving lives – Wendy Barnes (Read article)

45 History in the News

48 The ‘workless workers’ and the Waterbury watch: W.T. Stead, W.A. Dunkerley and the Census of the Unemployed 1887 – Peter Hounsell (Read article)

54 My Favourite History Place: Castle Hill, Huddersfield – Alison Hramiak (Read article)

57 Out and About in Cairo – Nicolas Kinloch (Read article)

Regular features: Access all past editions of our regular features Real Lives, My Favourite History Place and Out & About

Cover image: Ortelius’ 1570 map of Africa, from Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas. The map was one of the first widely-disseminated, modernised maps of Africa and it became the standard map of the continent until well into the seventeenth century.

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