Cultural

Graham Dukes takes the reader on a visit to Amsterdam in her early modern heyday: a state within a state; a rich, self-assured, multicultural city, run by businessmen, for businessmen.

L.R. Palmer describes what we can learn of social stratification in ancient Greece from its epics.

George Charles Henry Victor Paget, the 7th Marquis of Anglesey, shares the stories behind the trip that his ancestor, the 1st Marquess of Anglesey, paid to the Court of Russia with his sons during the summer of 1839.

George Pendle finds that the authoress of Little Arthur's History of England was also an inquisitive and adventurous traveller.

Postwar Britain’s relationship with its past was laid bare in a long-running television show, argues Tim Stanley.

Noel Goodwin argues that in the making of Mozart's music there is a key to understanding his form of art and way of life.

Claud Cockborn explains how British bloodstock has its origins in a small group of Arab horses first imported in the seventeenth century.

Thomas W. Copeland here re-examines one of the most perplexing mysteries: that of Burke's connection with the famous “Single-Speech” Hamilton.

R.V. Sampson charts the philosophical battles that the philosophes fought to publish their Enlightenment masterwork of human knowledge.

Naomi Mitchinson on the complex linguistic legacies of the travelling people.