
Like Grandmother, like granddaughter: Eleanor of Aquitaine and Blanche of Castile
Arguably the most successful woman to wield political power in the middle ages, Blanche of Castile is today…
Arguably the most successful woman to wield political power in the middle ages, Blanche of Castile is today…
Andrew Stewart introduces his new book The First Victory: The Second World War and the East Africa Campaign,…
What They Do with Your Money A Review by Lyric Hughes Hale I have long been fascinated by…
Jon Willis, author of All These Worlds Are Yours — “So you want to fly to an iron ore…
Noam Chomsky – founder of modern linguistics and the world’s most prominent political dissident – is the subject…
Homo Economicus Becomes Human The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens Review by Lyric…
In his new book, The Battle for Syria, Christopher Phillips describes the Syrian conflict as both a symptom and…
‘We cannot understand the Syrian civil war without understanding the complex web of international relations surrounding it’ Most…
In recent months, the rise of far-right parties in different European countries and events such as the UK’s…
by Malcolm Vale, author of Henry V: The Conscience of a King – ‘By the kyng. Trusty and…
Fiona Stafford, author of the charmingly illustrated The Long, Long Life of Trees, explores the many ways in which humans…
by Joel E. Dimsdale, author of Anatomy of Malice — Seventy years ago the international military tribunal at…
‘Erika’s great skill was to turn the paintings … into companions.’ – Michael Palin Michael Palin ‘makes no…
by Gregory Woods, author of Homintern — There is a tendency to think the culture and politics of…
‘Writing in 1965-6, Pevsner caught both the success of the burgeoning Shakespeare industry and the tension with the…