
Our year in books: Highlights from 2018
‘Tis the season to be cosy! Winter has arrived and what could be better than curling up with…
‘Tis the season to be cosy! Winter has arrived and what could be better than curling up with…
For nearly four years, and against all the odds, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Josef Stalin led the…
Armistice Day was declared on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, 1918. In…
Reflections on the life and legacy of inspirational publisher and mentor Claire L’Enfant by Heather McCallum I am…
Christian Goeschel- On 20 July 1944, a bomb exploded in the Wolf’s Lair, Adolf Hitler’s East Prussian Headquarters….
Author Daniel E. Sutherland Reflects on the Extraordinary Woman – Whistler’s Mother Her name was Anna Matilda Whistler…
What is archaeology? The word may bring to mind images of golden pharaohs and lost civilizations, or Neanderthal…
This July, medieval history enthusiasts from all over the world will descend on Leeds for the 25th annual…
The Paston Treasure – one of the most enigmatic paintings in Western art – has come back home to the…
The extravagant gardens of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century British aristocracy are well-documented and celebrated, but the more modest…
This month marks the bicentenary of German philosopher and economist Karl Marx’s birth. To mark this moment, we…
In his new book The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia, Mark Galeotti explores the underground world of the Russian mafia,…
Margarette Lincoln offers five things that you may not know about London’s maritime world in the age of…
To celebrate both International Women’s Day and the centenary of women’s suffrage in Britain, we’ve taken a look…
This transcript is an edited extract from an interview conducted by the new Hedghog & Fox podcast at…