More than this, he sees the assaults of the 1980s as intensely damaging not only to Oxbridge, but to British culture more ...

Her extreme reserve seemed impenetrable, yet she was intensely loveable … one of her rare expressive looks was something to ...

When the American journalist Suzy Hansen first arrived in Istanbul in 2007 on a research trip for an NGO, the promise of a ...

This is the singular and spectacular trajectory of George Forster, subject of Andrea Wulf’s irresistible new biography.

Lytton, daughter of the Earl of Lytton, accepted a proposal of marriage from the rising Conservative politician Gerald ...

In How to Use a Fork, Orlando Swayne, a neurologist at the National Hospital, Queen Square, describes the silent and largely ...

This year, in case you didn’t know it, is the tercentenary of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown’s birth. He was the landscape designer who advised at some 250 estates in England and exerted almost a ...

Laura Ingalls Wilder’s captivating autobiographical novels may have been written for children, but they have become primers for mid-19th-century pioneer American history and the hard-won creation myth ...

William Trevor, the much-admired writer of more than thirty novels and collections of short stories, died in 2016. He would have been ninety this year, and to remember and celebrate him this ...

‘Would we have liked to live with him?’ asked Thackeray, contemplating Swift, a question he immediately ducked by supplying a long list of other writers with whom we might prefer to spend our time.

Longman, now part of the Pearson empire but a firm in direct descent from two members of the consortium of publishers who put up the money for Samuel Johnson’s celebrated Dictionary of the English ...

Until the 1980s, the literature on Israel’s history was dominated by respectful biographies of the country’s founders and turgid multi-volume histories of central institutions such as the army and the ...