Cultural

Michael Broers explores the measures and restrictions imposed by Napoleon on his many subjects and how, within the boundaries of the Empire, they responded to his rule.

A.D. Harvey looks at the enduring myth surrounding one of history’s ‘Great Men’, and how he dominated the nineteenth-century imagination outside France.

Janis Wilton records the stories of 19th-century Chinese immigrants and their descendants, and explores their relationship with ‘White Australia’.

Gavin Weightman finds historical precedents for Britain’s response to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Robert Pearce gives us a view of George Orwell for the 1990s

Richard Bellamy demonstrates the contemporary relevance of an eighteenth-century debate.  

Jeremy Black shows how historical atlases have for centuries recorded more than objective fact.

M. Naeem Qureshi on a remnant of empire which has moved beyond being a mere repository of the Raj.

Daniel Snowman on commerce and opera over fifty years at Covent Garden.

Casting Islam and Muslims as the enemy was crucial in the Crusades, and the context of conflict has colored Christian-Islamic relations since.