Cultural

David Hipshon regrets the degree to which our history syllabuses have censored the roles of British heroes.

The famous London store opened to the public on March 15th, 1909.

Mark Bryant on how French cartoonists of the 1870s responded to national humiliation at the hands of a beligerent Prussia.

The Turkish government’s plans to flood two ancient towns with the reservoirs created by two dams are being fiercely resisted – but time is rapidly running out, as Pinar Sevinclidir reports.

Byron’s love affair with bare-knuckle boxing was shared by many of his fellow Romantics, who celebrated this most brutal of sports in verse. John Strachan examines an unlikely match.

The British Museum opened on 15 January 1759.

M.J. Cohen celebrates the life of Thomas Fuller, a pioneer historian and contemporary of Milton, with whom he shares a 400th anniversary.

Neil Taylor discusses how political change has left its mark on the Latvian capital’s Town Hall Square. 

F.G. Stapleton introduces the ‘weather vane ideology’.

Robert Pearce investigates the career of the Third Reich’s ‘evil genius’.