Cultural

The Barbed Wit of Weimar

Mark Bryant contines his exploration of significant cartoons and caricature with a look at a German magazine that published some of the bravest satirical critiques of Hitler, bitterly attacking Nazism until 1933, and still published to the last years of the war.

Alexandria Below the Waves

Russell Chamberlin describes the revelations of a recent conference on the archaeology of Cleopatra’s Alexandria.

Piety and Chivalry: St George's Chapel Windsor

Nigel Saul looks at a building which embodied much of England’s religious and political life in the later Middle Ages, and which staged the blessing of the Prince of Wales’s marriage on April 9th 2005.

The Churchill Museum

Phil Reed, Director of the new Churchill Museum, gives a personal insight into the development of the new museum housed in the Cabinet War Rooms, which opens to the public this month.

Argentina’s Left-Wingers

Leslie Ray argues that politics and football have always been inseparable in the land of the ‘hand of God’.

Opera’s Second Coming

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