Cultural

Casting Islam and Muslims as the enemy was crucial in the Crusades, and the context of conflict has colored Christian-Islamic relations since.

Greg Walker challenges the view that court intrigue, favourites, 'new men' and new manners took root under the Tudor monarch.

Robin Bruce Lockhart celebrates the past and present of the immortal dram and its historic links with our seasonal festivities at Christmas and New Year.

Mikulas Teich looks at the impact of scientific transformations since 1900, and how these changes have produced a new world culture and global organisation.

David Nicholls explains what is not included in a modern French film looking at love, betrayal and anti-colonialism in 1930s South East Asia.

Graham Shipley meets the dead in a Greek cemetery - an oasis of classicism in modern Athens.

Gerd Horten on how 'soaps' helped win the war after Pearl Harbor.

An insight into how Belgium has used lottery funds to bring medieval status back to life.

Diana Webb looks into the pleasures and pitfalls of an early tourist experience.

A look at a new exhibition in Venice, which shows the flow of culture between East and West in early Greece.