The Battle of Agincourt: The Longbow
‘He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam’d,…
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The Battle of Trafalgar: A Great Victory?
James Davey, author of the new book In Nelson’s Wake and curator of the National Maritime Museum, reexamines…
The Battle of Agincourt: Chivalry
‘He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam’d,…
Blood, Dreams and Gold: Burma’s Past Catches up with its Future
‘At one time Burma was a thriving and prosperous regional hub; the hope is that it can eventually…
Yale Books Autumn Reading List
‘I don’t think there’s a trade publishing house producing high-calibre, serious non-fiction of the quality and variety of Yale.’…
Meet Ivan Maisky: The Munich Agreement
In this, the final part of our blog series celebrating publication of The Maisky Diaries, author Gabriel Gorodetsky…
Bringing Modern Architecture to Oxford
By Elain Harwood, author of Space, Hope and Brutalism — It’s very easy to take England’s universities for…
Mass Migration and the Lost World of Byzantium
‘In a pre-mechanical world, where human muscle was one of the main forms of motive power, young, fit…
The Battle of Britain: The Crisis
‘On 1 August Hitler issued Führer Directive No. 17 … The RAF must be eliminated as well as its…
James West Davidson on A Little History of the United States
‘Here is not merely a nation, but a teeming nation of nations.’ – Walt Whitman James West Davidson’s A Little…
Bookshop of the Month: Broadhursts of Southport Ltd
The charm of a second hand book and the thrill of discovering a hidden gem is one of…
Space, Hope & Brutalism: A Conversation with Elain Harwood
Many of us in Britain are familiar with the uncompromising Brutalist architecture that can be found throughout the…
The People’s Galleries: South Kensington Museum – The V&A
Giles Waterfield’s The People’s Galleries is a wide-ranging examination of the phenomenon of the art museum in Britain, from its early…
Meet Ivan Maisky: The Outbreak of the Second World War
In part three of our blog series celebrating publication of The Maisky Diaries, Gabriel Gorodetsky selects and introduces…
Martin Luther King & The Dream Speech – 28 August 1963
‘The line between slave and free was replaced by a new color line between black and white, enforced…