Peter Green meets the satirists of the Roman Empire, and is presented with a picture of a world in corruption and decline. Yet the Empire outlasted its bitterest critics by several hundred years.
D.M. Walmsley analyses the plentiful artistic and personal connections between the explorations of the Virginia company and the Bard.
Esther A.L. Moir meets the early English antiquaries— from William of Worcester to Sir William Dugdale—pioneers who laid the foundations of an important form of modern historical scholarship. Travelling up and down Great Britain, They kept a careful record of everything they heard and saw, investigating the monuments of the past and describing the landscapes of their own age.
Graham Dukes takes the reader on a visit to Amsterdam in her early modern heyday: a state within a state; a rich, self-assured, multicultural city, run by businessmen, for businessmen.
L.R. Palmer describes what we can learn of social stratification in ancient Greece from its epics.
George Charles Henry Victor Paget, the 7th Marquis of Anglesey, shares the stories behind the trip that his ancestor, the 1st Marquess of Anglesey, paid to the Court of Russia with his sons during the summer of 1839.
George Pendle finds that the authoress of Little Arthur's History of England was also an inquisitive and adventurous traveller.
Postwar Britain’s relationship with its past was laid bare in a long-running television show, argues Tim Stanley.
Noel Goodwin argues that in the making of Mozart's music there is a key to understanding his form of art and way of life.
Claud Cockborn explains how British bloodstock has its origins in a small group of Arab horses first imported in the seventeenth century.
