The rise and fall of the Bacris and Busnachs, two Jewish families whose prominence in trade and banking led them to play a small but crucial diplomatic and logistical role in the Napoleonic ... read more
'Drawing from such diverse sources as Newton's Principia, military manuals, eighteenth-century games, and cookbooks among others, Lorraine Daston seeks to define the role rules have played i... read more
Catalogue from the Garden Museum's winter exhibition which presents FW's interest in plants and environmentalism as inextricable from issues of race, belonging, justice and his own Caribbean... read more
Aztec art in Brussels, West African ivories in Antwerp... the great artists (D?rer, Bosch etc) were drawing on more than rediscovered classical texts. JJ considers the Renaissance as "a conv... read more
From the publishers of Luncheon magazine, a chic collection of stories, reminiscences and recipes grounded in HC's childhood in Ireland and his time in the Basque country and France, with Pe... read more
After the Armistice in 1918, the Allies' support for anyone contra-German mutated into anti-Bolshevik Intervention. Forces were deployed in Archangel, the Caucasus, the Far East and elsewher... read more
Furniture, objects, designs, textiles and drawings by the great designer of the Viennese Arts & Crafts movement. To accompany the current exhibition at the Brussels Museum of Art and History... read more
The distinguished historian of China, author of Vermeer's Hat, argues that it was not so much the Manchu invasion as climate change that brought collapse to the Ming Dynasty.
"That must be a terrible thing to make a railway engine weep" quoth Dai Station: what oh what is the matter with Ivor, the little green steam engine of the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Tra... read more