‘Weep Wretched Man’ - Civil War in Poetry
Kenneth Baker on poetry inspired by nations warring between themselves.
Volume 47 Issue 11 November 1997
Germany's Convict Exports
Richard Evans tells the little-known story of how 19th-century Germany attempted to solve its prison problems by secretly sending felons to the United States as immigrants.
La France Libre and the Legacy of de Gaulle
Max Beloff reviews a fresh account of de Gaulle and the Free French movement.
Birth of William Hogarth
The artist was born in London on November 10th, 1697.
Death of Felix Mendelssohn
The prolific composer died on 4 November, 1847.
Return to Dura Europos
It was like a page from the Arabian Nights. Aladdin’s lamp had been rubbed and suddenly from the dry, brown bare desert had appeared paintings, not just one nor a panel nor a wall, but a whole building of scene after scene, all drawn from the Old Testament in a way never dreamed of before.’
Images of a Dead Queen
‘There was such a generall sighing and groning, and weeping, and the like hath not beene seene or knowne in the memorie of man’: visual images of the death of Elizabeth I played a key role in her funeral and in creating the ensuing cult of Gloriana.
Chinese Whispers from New South Wales
Janis Wilton records the stories of 19th-century Chinese immigrants and their descendants, and explores their relationship with ‘White Australia’.
The Union Lincoln Made
Joshua Kleinfeld explores Lincoln’s attitudes towards the constitution and civil liberty during the Civil War, and finds their impact still reverberating in the US today.