Cultural

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.

Greg Walker challenges the view that court intrigue, favourites, 'new men' and new manners took root under the Tudor monarch.

Robin Bruce Lockhart celebrates the past and present of the immortal dram and its historic links with our seasonal festivities at Christmas and New Year.

Mikulas Teich looks at the impact of scientific transformations since 1900, and how these changes have produced a new world culture and global organisation.