The Munich crisis in 1938 triggered air-raid precautions, including the distribution of gas masks and sandbags. Actual war in ...

After Napoleon, Marie Antoinette is probably the most famous French historical figure in Britain, even though she was originally Austrian and he was Corsican. At an early age, however, both left home ...

‘The whole point of this book’, the award-winning epidemiologist Professor Tim Spector informs readers of Spoon-Fed, ‘is not to tell you how or what to eat’ – a refreshing change for those who have to ...

Awake, Arise, or Be Forever Fallen - What in Me is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost by Orlando Reade ...

With Saints, Amy Jeffs makes her own contribution to the centuries-old tradition of abridging and compiling saints’ lives.

Sharpe père died in 1944, shortly before he could be apprised of the realities of Belsen. Even with the benefit of Brendon’s ...

On the Genetic Traces of Human Evolution, Migration and Adaptation by Lluís Quintana-Murci (Translated from French by Howard ...

Do you know what happened in Lyon in AD 177? Or in Milan in 1300? Or in Baroda in 1825? You probably don’t, but you shouldn’t worry: few do. Whatever happened, it was, by ordinary standards, something ...

At the heart of The Europeans is an extraordinary ménage à trois. The novelist Ivan Turgenev was for two-thirds of his life in love with the singer and composer Pauline Viardot, wife of the ...

Blake Gopnik’s life of Andy Warhol is less the chronicle of an advance towards death than a protracted postmortem. Gopnik begins halfway through, at what must have seemed to Warhol like the end. In ...

British constitutional experts have a lot to get their teeth into in 2020. The last three years have exposed several fault lines: over parliamentary procedure, the interaction of direct and ...

The Ghost in the Studio ...