A jury’s acquittal of Alexander the Great shows why we should sooner judge our own prejudices than the behaviour of historical figures
The mid-19th-century Holland Park villa built for Lord Leighton, president of the Royal Academy of Arts, reopens soon and looks magnificent
Peculiar traditions are now sadly downplayed in favour of a narrative that emphasises ordinariness
Bastion of free speech or stymied by modern woke culture? Britain’s most elite university society debates its future
Although Henry clearly had a ‘type’, the similarity of many of the portraits of the time shows how simply women were viewed by some artists