History


The English Marriage

Francis Phillips | 16 March 2010
A spirited gallop through several hundred years of love, money and adultery.

Let’s have done with the ‘Dark Ages’

Joanna Bogle | 29 September 2009
The glint of gold in some long buried treasure is shedding new light on the culture of ancient Britain.

What is civilization?

Francis Phillips | 24 August 2009
Everyone is in favour of civilization, but exactly what is it? A British intellectual, John Armstrong, has taken up the challenge of defining a very slippery concept.

Queen of Fashion

Francis Phillips | 29 April 2007
Was the doomed Marie Antoinette merely a frivolous aristocrat addicted to bizarre 18th century frippery? Or did she have a deeper side?

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