Centuries of unwanted and lost items – from medieval shoes to modern cellphones – are helping to tell the story of Amsterdam’s urban history from a fresh perspective. Some 700,000 artifacts were ...

Russell Shorto's The Island at the Centre of the World (2004) must always be near the top of the list of great books about New York. Revelling in the heaps of recently translated records from the 17th ...

Carved in stone over the front entrance to the Amsterdam Free Library at Church and Grove streets are the words, “Open to All.” Generations of Amsterdamians are familiar with the interior of the ...

This past March, I had the pleasure of attending the ASTA River Cruise Expo in Amsterdam. It's a unique opportunity to see the latest and greatest in river cruise fleets, network with industry ...

This video captures a refined street scene in Amsterdam, where historic buildings stand prominently alongside active city ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City, by Russell Shorto, Little, Brown RRP£25 / Doubleday RRP$28.95, ...