Cultural

Arthur Marwick reveals how beauty moved from being enticing and dangerous to being enticing and all-powerful.

Richard Cavendish remembers the events of December 9th, 1854.

Adrian Mourby welcomes a new wave of opera houses around the world, and compares this with the previous surge in the late 19th century.

Alastair Bonnett discusses Eastern ideas of the West, and argues they form part of a non-Western debate on modernity and society.

Edward Falshaw completes his survey of questions on contemporary Britain.

Narrative historian and festival organiser Derek Wilson looks back over half a century of popularising history

Tom Palaima reviews a new title on the deceased and how they have influenced primitive man to twentieth century society.

John Strachan looks at women and advertising in late Georgian England.

Tim Black seeks to understand the origins of antisemitism, looking beyond the Holocaust to the ancient Middle East and medieval Europe.