Cultural

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.

Edward Falshaw advises how our study of this important period can match the examiners’ agenda.

Angela McShane Jones asks what depictions in broadsides of Mary II with her breasts exposed, tell us about 17th-century popular attitudes to royalty.

David Lowenthal explores natural history enthusiasms among Victorian Britons and Americans, and finds an explanation for their differing approaches to conservation.