Intimacy and Painting in Ming China
Craig Clunas considers what we can learn of the society of Ming China by looking at how paintings were used as gifts.
Cultural
The Birth of Fanny Burney
Richard Cavendish charts the life of the novelist, diarist and playwright Frances Burney who was born on June 13th, 1752.
Culture or Plunder?
Russell Chamberlin assesses claims for the return of cultural treasures.
An American Tragedy
Thomas Doherty examines a series of conflicts between left-wing artists and movie moguls at the time of Sergei Eisenstein's brief sojourn in Tinseltown in the 1930s.
The Search for John Tresilian, Master Smith to Edward IV
Jane Geddes investigates the remarkable ironwork of the gates of the tomb of Edward IV, and considers what they can tell us about 15th-century craft and culture.
Enrico Caruso’s Landmark Recordings
Catherine Roddam looks back at the first recordings of Italian tenor Enrico Caruso.
The Rise and Fall of Empires
Harold Perkin discusses the role of the extraction and distribution of surplus production in historical change, from Ancient Egypt to the 21st century.
Popular Leisure and Industrialisation
Kenneth J. Baird examines change and continuity in 19th-century British social history.
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Class
A celebratory history which challenges cultural stereotypes and fashionable academic assumptions.