A Life by Sara Wheeler ...

The story of Edward Whalley and William Goffe, two of the three signatories of Charles I’s death warrant who fled to New England after the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, has seen a revival of ...

Byron Rogers begins this charming and deftly written book about R S Thomas with a meditation on the question which ought to keep literary biographers awake at night: Why bother? Thomas himself put the ...

It may be thought that the notorious Cambridge spies – the majority of them members of the Apostles, that university’s secretive, elitist society – had been written out. But, as Stalin’s Apostles ...

For Edward Gibbon, the decline of the Roman Empire was a matter of blame. He did not hesitate to condemn a fatal combination of violent barbarian invasion and the growing popularity of Christianity ...

A Story of Power, Conflict and Couture by Justine Picardie; Dressing the Queen: Two Hundred Years of Makers and Monarchy by ...

The Dublin Bar has a long tradition of learned counsel who have doubled as scholars of the humanities. At University College Dublin, Frank Callanan completed an undergraduate degree in history before ...

For half a century, James Graham Ballard lived in the tranquil riverside village of Shepperton off the M3. The Thames Valley suburb was almost destroyed by Martians in The War of the Worlds, and in ...

Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626) famously argued that gunpowder was one of the inventions which, though ‘unknown to the ancients’, had most transformed the ‘whole face and state of things throughout the ...

Philosophy in the Age of Airplanes by Anthony Gottlieb; I Think of You Constantly with Love: The Letters of Ludwig ...

Following a chance conversation with a stranger in a London television studio in 2023, Radden Keefe picks up the unsolved ...