We have bred a generation so incurious, and so uninterested in the philosophical foundations of society, that they no longer ask: ‘Why?’ ...

They must take charge and stop the Coalition’s preference leakage, reminding voters that the only reason Labor governs with ...

After several months of watching his popularity plumb new depths, Prime Minister Albanese must have been looking forward to ...

Alfred the Great was an Anglo-Saxon. He wasn’t an ancient Briton. King Arthur was an ancient Briton. William the Conqueror was a Norseman. He was essentially a Dane. Even our greatest aristocrats are, ...

Drawing on contemporary newspaper reports, this splendid book recreates cricket’s watershed year, 1864. At the time, Kit Harris explains, ...

The elegant, charismatic and narcissistic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson wasn’t the average adventurer that Alaska attracted in 1912. When he ...

The first aeroplane flight in Britain was made in 1909 by John Moore-Brabazon, holder of the first British pilot’s ...

As a wing of the military, the Ordnance Survey had extraordinary powers. The Surveyors’ Act of 1841 allowed it to trudge, clamber, squelch, measure and interrogate wherever necessary. The first ...

Jude Cook’s intriguing third novel, Time Being, opens with a bang. A philosophy lecturer has been shot dead through ...

Bassett sets out on well-trodden ground to ask: what is English food? He focuses on a clutch of dishes or products which have long been seen as important to, or turning points within, English food ...

It’s not a mistake made by A.K. Blakemore in her weighty account of the torrid fortnight of the 1381 poll tax riots, also known (misleadingly) as the Peasants’ Revolt. The festivities of the church ...

Farewell to Eden, Sebastian Faulks’s 18th novel, is a timely masterpiece; a riveting story of war and lost love ...