The struggle for Greenland
As Elizabeth Buchanan’s new history shows, Donald Trump is not the first foreigner to covet the Arctic territory. But his…
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As Elizabeth Buchanan’s new history shows, Donald Trump is not the first foreigner to covet the Arctic territory. But his…
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Alice Roberts’ history of the late Roman empire dispels the notion of a faith for the poor and oppressed –…
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This summer, take the epic satire Don Juan to the beach.
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One wet summer over a century ago, Gilbert Jessop gave the country something to be cheerful about.
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The history of assassinations, as Simon Ball points out in his book Death to Order, is one of myth-making, bungled…
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Kate Loveman’s history of a national treasure preserves Pepys’s charm while revealing a discomfiting historical world.
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The Chinese president’s concept of power was forged by the suffering of his revolutionary father, Xi Zhongxun.
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In Three Weeks in July, Adam Wishart and James Nally show how the Islamist bomb attacks of July 2005 changed…
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Gordon Corera’s account of the audacious counter-intelligence operative Vasili Mitrokhin is non-fiction that reads like a spy thriller.
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Johan Norberg’s history of civilisation is an impressive conceptual achievement – but it has little to say about our own…
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The Second World War was not just won on the battlefield, but in seemingly marginal regions from Ireland to Iraq.
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The case of Dr Crippen contains a story of multiple on-the-make lives as well as gruesome death.
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In the Seventies, one feminist movement campaigned to make domestic labour both visible and recompensed.
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Christopher Hill was much better at analysing the revolution than he was at fomenting one.
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The enduring resonance of the Roman empire is often remarked upon – but rarely understood.
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Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.
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A story of two friends who took opposite sides asks: does ideology always triumph over loyalty?
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A revisionist history claims the postwar consensus was shaped by Conservative visions.
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New studies of Winston Churchill and Harold Wilson show the rewards and perils of political biography.
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William Dalrymple’s The Golden Road places India, not China or Europe, as the global wellspring of learning and power.
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