Bismarck and the Cartoonists
W.A. Coupe explores the polarised opinions aroused by the 'Iron Chancellor', as revealed in the German press.
Art
The Body Politic: Diseases and Discourses
Roy Porter opens our new series on Picturing History, based on a series of lectures organised in conjunction with Reaktion Books, and shows how 18th-century images of the medical profession flow over into the work of political caricaturists.
Painted Ladies
Charles Saumarez Smith, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, reflects on some of the issues raised by the exhibition 'Painted Ladies: Women at the Court of Charles II'.
Britannia Roused: Political caricature and the fall of the Fox-North coalition
David Johnson looks at the art of Sayers and Gillray and the role of pictorial satire in the destruction of a government.
Artists in the London Landscape
Charlotte Crow reviews the Museum of London exhibition tracing three centuries of artistic creativity in London.
Low and the Dictators
Timothy Benson assesses Hitler's irritated reaction to being lampooned by David Low of the Evening Standard.
Close of the Paris Exposition Universelle
The Exposition Universelle in Paris ended on November 12th, 1900. In seven months, the Exposition drew over 50 million visitors.
The Houses of Parliament. History, Art and Architecture
Christine Riding and Jacqueline Riding (ed.)
The Dulwich Picture Gallery
Desmond Shawe-Taylor on the re-opening of the Dulwich Picture Gallery and the history of its foundation.
The Exorcist
Nick Cull explores how the smash-hit horror film exploited all the issues that most worried Americans in the early 1970s.