Queen Victoria was shameless in her favouritism and partisanship. At the beginning of her reign she was smitten with Lord ...
As the historian John Blair points out, corpse killing has been a feature of human society for millennia, and with good ...
When war broke out, he joined the British Expeditionary Force as a despatcher, driving his own car with a machine gun mounted ...
The Legacy of a Scandal by Merlin Holland ...
In the ensuing quarter-century, a select historical band has taken up this challenge – notably Andrew Pettegree in The ...
A Life in Ideas by Matthew Bell ...
After the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat died from an overdose at the age of twenty-seven, hangers-on and chancers stepped over ...
Unexpectedly, yet perhaps inevitably, Evelyn Waugh is becoming more likeable as the years go by. Fifty years dead now, the vile, rude, snobbish, cigar-chomping, ear trumpet-brandishing, ...
Just before Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Gestapo and ruler of Bohemia, was, as the Irish put it, shot off, Walter Frentz made a colour portrait photograph. Hitler, anticipating further staff losses ...
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 one point in Defining Hitler its author asks the reader the rhetorical question: why bother to read this book? For many writers this would be a merited act of authorial self-destruction. In Haffner ...
Sarah Gristwood’s sweeping survey of the careers of numerous royal women in 16th-century Europe amply justifies the nod to Game of Thrones in the title: it features enough dynastic conflict, violence ...
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