
Christmas at Chartwell with Churchill
An extract from Churchill’s Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm by Katherine Carter. The magic of Christmas at Chartwell was its constancy….
An extract from Churchill’s Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm by Katherine Carter. The magic of Christmas at Chartwell was its constancy….
Fear was the unacknowledged spectre haunting the streets of London during the Second World War; fear not only of death from the German bombers…
In his lost memoir, Britain’s first Black Olympic medal winner details his experience of competing in the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp. After winning Olympic…
In What the Greeks Did for Us, Tony Spawforth says ‘the modern Olympics are the most globally high-profile manifestation of ‘what the Greeks did…
Article by Neil Faulkner, author A Visitor’s Guide to the Ancient Olympics. You might be forgiven for thinking the lighting of the Olympic torch…
Article by Neil Faulkner, author A Visitor’s Guide to the Ancient Olympics. The modern Olympics purport to be a reconstruction of the ancient. In…
As an aid to students, teachers and parents, we have constructed an A–Z of the World taken from E. H. Gombrich’s, A Little History…
For Pride Month 2024 we are sharing a series of extracts from our books which look at the history and experiences of LGBT people…
For Pride Month 2024 we are sharing a series of extracts from our books which look at the history and experiences of LGBT people…
For Pride Month 2024 we are sharing a series of extracts from our books which look at the history and experiences of LGBT people…
If you want to find out more about the real Ton, marriage mart and social world that inspired Netflix’s Bridgerton and Jane Austen’s novels,…
To mark the occasion of the 75th anniversary of NATO, we are sharing this extract from Sten Rynning’s new book, NATO: From Cold War…
First published in 2014, Ben Judah’s book Fragile Empire is the result of his travels throughout Russia and the former Soviet republics where he…
Eamon Duffy’s landmark account of the pre-Reformation church in England was first published in 1992. The Stripping of the Altars is a major revisionist…
Vid Simoniti considers the complexities of political art and discusses how and when art became politicised.