Popular history can be more than everything ribald and rip-roaring and frenetic and fun

A new book takes a valuable tour of the Isle of Man

Changes in the early modern period forced people to look at themselves anew

Hayek was not, and always insisted that he was not, a laissez-faire economist

From an old-fashioned tale to a new-fashioned one, with a dash of dystopia

A welcome addition to Yorkshire volumes

The cooling of the earth, not its warming has proved most destructive

France was putting itself on trial, for its actions during the war

The early growth of the Empire was fuelled by spices, not slaves

If we are to defend civilisation, we had better pin down what we are talking about