Making an Atlas of Islam
Francis Robinson explains how his perception of Islam is reflected in his book, Atlas of the Islamic World since 1500 (Phaidon, 1982).
Social
Painter of Victorian Life
F.M.L. Thompson looks at the public reception of the artist George Elgar Hicks.
Our Past Before Us
Gerrard Roots examines two books on the significance of the past and pastoral life.
Poland's Dream of Past Glory
Norman Davies finds that Poland is a repository of ideas and values which can outlast any number of military and political catastrophies.
The Coffee Houses of Augustan London
John D. Pelzer explains how the casual gathering of like-minded coffee-drinkers would influence British political and intellectual life for decades.
'The Noisie' Empty, Fluttring French': English Images of the French, 1689-1815
'To sum up all, poverty, slavery and innate insolence, covered with an affectation of politeness, give you... a true picture of the manners of the whole nation' was Hogarth's opinion of the French in 1749, explains Michael Duffy.
Manpower for Britain's Empire
The flood of emigrants bidding their 'Last farewell to England' in the early nineteenth century was not as the result of an organised governmental policy of colonial development, argues Mark Brayshaw, but of haphazard individual effort.
Redmond O'Hanlon and the Outlaws of Ulster
In the first half of the seventeenth century, Ireland in effect changed hands, and Redmond O'Hanlon was one of the many dispossessed who made parts of Ireland ungovernable by the outlaw's war he waged.