Volume 42 Issue 4 April 1992

Paul Dukes introduces a major series on the 1890s.

A new exhibition at the Ashmolean which questions the experience of museum visiting.

Ann Hills discovers a feast of Welsh flowers amid the history of a working-class town

Steve Humphries unlocks the taboo histories of the disabled and handicapped.

Mike Pavasovic puts in a word for Serbia's wartime Cetniks.

David Buttery considers the Warwick Vase, its origins, wanderings and greenhouse home.

Daniel Pick looks at change, melodrama and decay in the creative work of the artists of the Fin de Siècle 1890s period.

Si Fullinwider analyses how the nineteenth-century values of sexless 'respectability' were challenged by the ambiguities stirred up by Freud's delving into the unconcious.

 Dedicated followers of fashion – or senders of coded messages via the doublet, codpiece and hose? Lois Banner mounts an intriguing investigation of how male clothing reflected changing images of power, gender and sexuality in medieval Europe.