Cultural

Janet Vitmayer previews the new Music Gallery at the Horniman which is due to open this winter.

Michael Paris describes the film record of the North African victory, and how the footage represents a tour de force in terms of wartime documentary and national effort.

Craig Clunas considers what we can learn of the society of Ming China by looking at how paintings were used as gifts.

Richard Cavendish charts the life of the novelist, diarist and playwright Frances Burney who was born on June 13th, 1752.

Russell Chamberlin assesses claims for the return of cultural treasures.

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.

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.

Catherine Roddam looks back at the first recordings of Italian tenor Enrico Caruso.

Harold Perkin discusses the role of the extraction and distribution of surplus production in historical change, from Ancient Egypt to the 21st century.