Reviews

Dividend Day at the Bank of England, 1770.

Banking On It

‘A day in the life’ of the 18th-century Bank of England.

On the barricades on the Rue Soufflot, Paris, 1848, by Horace Vernet.

Springtime for Europe

In January 1848, in the Sicilian city of Palermo, the streets began to fill with crowds. From here, revolutionary sparks flew to almost all of Europe’s cities.

A Block for the Wigs, by the caricaturist James Gillray, 1783.

Human Rites

A Whiggish history of humanism from the Renaissance to the present.

Valois

Average Queens

Not every Renaissance queen was remarkable, but that does not make them insignificant. 

Temperance bearing an hourglass from Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Allegory of Good Government, 1338.

Tick Tock

On the difficulty of keeping time with the people of the past.

Boudica depicted in John Cassell's Illustrated History of England, 1857.

Boudica Lite

A search for Boudica finds its author, but not the Queen of the Iceni.