Turner and Shakespeare's Jessica
Andrew Wilton discusses a picture that shows the great landscape painter in a role removed from his stereotype, and which tells us much about the changing mores and aspirations of 'Middlemarch' England.
England
Amsterdam and William III
Without the economic muscle of the Netherlands' largest city, William III would never have been able to stage Britain's 'Glorious Revolution' or urge European war against Louis XIV. But his relationship with Amsterdam's burghers was far from smooth, as Elizabeth Edwards outlines here.
Maybe its Because I'm a Londoner
Richard Cavendish looks at an exhibition at the Museum of London on the diversity of the capital.
Percies, Nevilles and the Wars of the Roses
Anthony Pollard explains how the rivalry of two great Northern families contributed to civil war in fifteenth-century England.
London's New Eastern Promise
Oriental dealers Eskenazi and their new London outlet
Courtship in Tudor England
With a hey nonny-no - but the courtship of Elizabethan lads and lasses was not quite as buccolic as the madrigals suggest, as Eric Carlson explains.
Nasty Habits - Satire and the Medieval Monk
What made medieval monks laugh? Edward Coleman looks at humour, holy men and the sub-texts of comment in 12th-century England.
Freeing the Streets of Victorian London
Peter Atkins finds that though we might be considering toll roads, the Victorians were glad to get rid of them.
London, World City - for External Consumption?
Robert Thorne discusses 19th-century London on show in Germany
Propaganda in the Wars of the Roses
Colin Richmond analyses the part played by the written (and spoken) word in shoring up popular allegiances to the rival dynasties