Cultural

Philip E. Burnham Jr. describes how the court of Clement VI at Avignon became a model of humanism and scholarship for princely courts elsewhere in Europe.

Joanna Richardson describes how the volumes of the Goncourts Journal record the intelligent scene in late nineteenth-century France.

At a time when the Turkish rulers of Greece were conducting a profitable trade in ancient statues, Charles Fellows, an enlightened English tourist, rescued a precious hoard from Asia Minor. By Sarah Searight.

Alan Haynes describes how, for just over three centuries, Greek visitors often settled in England and associated with its clerics and learned men.

Joanna Richardson portrays the marriage of Alfred Tennyson and Emily Sellwood, which set the world a ‘radiant example of domestic happiness’.

Joanna Richardson introduces the creator of the popular press in France and a supreme example of the self-made man.

The legend of the disappearing continent has deep and ancient roots. By G.E. Millward, G.W. Evans, and L.E. Hull.

Stella Margetson describes how English drama arose from the series of religious plays in which men of the Middle Ages expressed their profound, but direct and simple faith.

Peter Petrie profiles an American journalistic pioneer, the founder and first editor of the New York Herald newspaper.

Ivan Morris describes how the idea of heroic failure has always exerted a strong hold on the Japanese imagination.