Europe

Edward Said’s controversial book is now thirty years old. A new exhibition of Orientalist paintings at Tate Britain provides a timely opportunity to revisit its argument, says Kamran Rastegar.

The founder of the Carthusian Order died on 6 October, 1101.

The last 150 years have seen a chequered but eventually triumphant reintegration of Jews into a society whose heritage they helped to mould, says C.C. Aronsfeld

David Abulafia considers Columbus’ first encounters with the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, and shows how they challenged European preconceptions about what it meant to be human.

International alarm over the terrorist threat is not new. Anthony Read relates how the appearance of Bolshevism created a state of near hysteria throughout the Western world.

Michael Mullett introduces the life and work of a remarkable Protestant leader.

Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery on March 2nd, 1978.

Anthea Gerrie explores a remarkable excavation, a Roman surgeon’s house in Rimini.

Suzanne Bardgett, director of the Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, reports on this ambitious new facility which opened in October.

Andrew Boxer considers explanations for France’s disastrous foreign policy between the wars.