History Today June 2020

I THOUGHT my subscription to History Today had ended, but then issue 6 of volume 70 arrived.
Once again it is dominated by social history, and when one article can headline somewhere as famous as the Greek city of Thebes as "the forgotten city," it is clear the magazine is aimed at a very unlearned readership.

My last History Today?

But I was impressed by Southampton University lecturer Elisabeth Forster's piece on the Chinese government's reaction to Covid-19 in the light of the country's "humiliations of the 19th century."
This type of article often puts most of the blame on the wicked West, but Forster avoids such an easy trap.
Nevertheless, I still have no plans to renew my subscription.