Europe

David Starkey on The English Renaissance Miniature.

Nancy Lockwood Adler considers the restructuring of the Sicilian town in the wake of the destructive earthquake of 1693.

The defeat of the Ottoman army outside the gates of Vienna in 1683 is usually regarded as the beginning of the decline of the Ottoman Empire. But how significant was it really, and for whom?

Daniel Bertaux presents an oral history of a traditional French industry.

The 'terrible majesty' of the Matterhorn was finally conquered in 1865 by Edward Whymper and his party, but tragedy followed on the descent, as Gordon T Stewart explains.

Jolyon Howorth on a compelling study of a political movement in France in the latter 19th century.

Ivan Roots reviews two books on familial and social history

Keith McCulloch samples a magisterial historiography

For wealthy young men in the eighteenth century, the 'Grand Tour' was the climax of their education, explains Hugh Belsey in this article. And as a souvenir of their travels, a portrait painted by Pompeo Batoni became almost de rigeur.

Geoffrey Parker examines the historiography of the Thirty Years' War.