Chasing a Sphinx: Charles the Bold's Burgundy
Despite his passion for fame and a formal crown, Charles the Bold's Burgundy was a patchwork of territories and not a modern state. Richard Vaughan investigates.
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West Africa’s Mary Kingsley
‘England… requires markets more than colonies.’ Mary Kingsley’s espousal of the African cause was founded on the empathy between second-class citizens in a white, male-dominated society, as Deborah Birkett reveals.
Revaluing South Korea’s Heritage
Ann Hills on how Korea’s rich history is displayed.
The Chinese Collections, Royal Ontario Museum
Penelope Johnston takes a look at a Far East collection in Canada
The Sandinista Heritage
Clare Foster examines the history of revolutionary Nicaragua
Fit For a King
Jeremy Black examines the claim that Louis XV may have used contraception.
Stewart Headlam and the Christian Socialists
'Stirring up divine discontent' by education to effect a transformation of the social order became the credo of one of Victorian Christian Socialism's most colourful characters, far outpacing the more temperate aims of its founders.
The Shipwrecked Remainders of Europe's China Boom
The recent recovery of large quantities of porcelain from the South China seas highlights eighteenth-century Europe's insatiable desire for tableware from the Orient.
The Roman Revolution?
David Braund takes a look over the latest collection of books on the Roman age.
Joseph Chamberlain and the Municipal Ideal
'... a kind of Ken Livingstone of his day', Britain's great imperialist made his early reputation as a civic radical, promoting public control of local amenities such as water and gas.