Nazism and the Christian Heritage
Robert Carr draws uncomfortable parallels between Christianity and Nazism.
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Why Renaissance? Why Florence?
Jon Cook identifies the mix of factors that helps explain the Florentine Renaissance.
Mary Stewart in France and Scotland
Retha Warnicke examines the tumultuous career of Mary, Queen of Scots, before her long incarceration by her cousin Elizabeth I of England.
Dystopia: Who Needs It?
Adrian Mourby shows that the nightmare scenario can be both dire warning and escapist fantasy.
Nature and Nation: Britain and America in the 19th Century
David Lowenthal explores natural history enthusiasms among Victorian Britons and Americans, and finds an explanation for their differing approaches to conservation.
Room with a View
Charlotte Crow glimpses the British Museum’s new exhibition of its own original collections in the great King’s Library.
On the Banks of the Neva: British Merchants in St Petersburg before the Russian Revolution
In the final article in our series on Britain and Russia, Stuart Thompstone visits the long-lasting community of Britons in the Russian capital.
The Methuen Treaty
December 27th, 1703
The Future of Indonesia
Merle Ricklefs seeks clues for the future of the troubled archipelago nation in its distant past.