Cultural

David Starkey visits the Lincoln Center for a night at the opera.

Paul Preston expresses both a historic and a musical interpretation of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov.

For the past 600 years the island of Java has been the scene for the encounter of the two major cultural and religious traditions of the world.

David Low, the cartoonist, met Horatio Blimp, a retired Colonel, in a Turkish bath near Charing Cross in the early 1930s. Many agree with C.S. Lewis that Colonel Blimp was 'the most characteristic expression of the English temper in the period between the two wars.'

Roderick Lyall on the royal household of a medieval Scottish monarch

The European images of Argentina are complex, and mirror profound debates about nationalism and universalism, popular and elite culture.

The Duke of Wellington proved a gift to the cartoonists of 'Punch' - he was a figure the magazine's readership would recognise, and he did not look unlike Mr Punch himself.

'The Genius of Venice' at the Royal Academy, Winter 1983/4

Martin Luther, explains Lyndal Roper, summarised his view of sex, marriage and motherhood in a letter he wrote to three nuns in 1524, 'A women does not have complete mastery over herself. God created her body that she should be with a man and bear and raise children'.