A hundred years ago to be one of a million Englishwomen was to be doomed. Even intelligent and educated girls could not get a post as a governess – there were too many. Hundreds of thousands resorted ...

A Life by Gerald Martin ...

Ancient Rome was a culture governed by the spoken word and Cicero was the most articulate public speaker Rome ever produced.

How the Americas Transformed Renaissance England, Lauren Working observes that these indigenous men may well have been ...

California Dreaming - The Beverly Hills Housewife: Hockney’s Californian Muse and the World Beyond the Pool by James Cahill ...

There are a few species of spiders that are dangerous to humans, but the chances of getting bitten by one, much less of becoming ill or dying from the bite, are infinitesimal. Spiders do not infect us ...

A Bulbous Moon - The Poems of Sylvia Plath by Amanda Golden & Karen V Kukil (eds) ...

Jacobsen’s hypothetical scenario centres on a genetically modified strain of plague, one of history’s most devastating ...

‘In the museum at The Hague, a superb and very singular landscape arrests all visitors and vividly impresses artists and connoisseurs.’ The radical journalist and art critic Théophile Thoré, writing ...

He was born in Paddington station, became tutor to Einstein, honorary valet to the Duke of Edinburgh, and President of Ireland. He was had up for smuggling and was a musical genius. He was born in ...

In Harold Bloom’s native United States, his latest tome has proved something of a publishing phenomenon. When I visited New York last autumn, this academic panorama of Shakespeare was enjoying a ...