Alexandrina of Kent’s coronation as Queen Victoria began one of the most transformative periods in British history. Victorian Britain was a place of contradictions. There were those who became super ...

In an effort to discourage alcohol consumption during the late 19th century, British temperance groups produced and circulated "drink maps" showing where people in particular cities could buy booze.

In the March/April issue, I devoted this space to Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books, published by Yale University Press and edited by Leah Price, a scholar at Harvard. This column ...

The most disadvantaged people in the United Kingdom are no better-off than they were 15 years ago, according to a new report, which finds a “yawning gap between those who can get by and those stuck at ...

Can Russian orchestras really play Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue? Can American symphonies really catch the spirit of Viennese waltzes? As music director of the Fort Worth Symphony, the American-trained ...

Pax Romana is often cited as a model for Pax Americana, both emerging after periods of war to guarantee security and order. But as Pax Americana wanes, at least in the view of Shlomo Ben-Ami, a ...

The recent publication of the University of Edinburgh’s Review of Race and History has drawn attention to its “skull room”: a collection of 1,500 human craniums procured for study in the 19th century.