The Novel & Idealism: George Sand's 'Francois le champi' (The Country Waif) The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw the rapid ascendancy of...
The Novel as Political History: Stendhal's 'Le rouge et le noir' Can a novel tell us something about political history that...
Black Teeth and Big Bones: British Height and Diet through History Prevailing wisdom says that our ancestors were shorter with poorer...
The Faces of a King: New research on portraits of Henry VIII The context of royal portraiture in its early evolution, and...
The Museum and Historical Collections of the Bank of England The Museum provides information about the purposes of the Bank, the...
God meets Mammon: The Financing of the New Cathedral St. Paul's is perhaps the greatest building to have emerged...
An Infernal Spark: Drink, Addiction and Disease Addiction is a familiar feature of contemporary society. Not only...
The Reform Club: Architecture and the birth of popular government Professor Peter Marsh, Honorary Professor of History at the University...