Books
Murders for March
A sinister start to the spring
Pains and pleasures of anticipation
The best sort of debut isn’t actually the author’s first book
Empire by way of Europe
A new book places the quest to keep Algeria French squarely at the centre of European integration
England’s fair and pleasant land
It’s not cricket; it’s the murky world of identity
Rich portrait of our island nation
Le Brun has written a study of Britain imagined, Britain as it recently was, and of Britain becoming
A window into the medieval mind
Heaven on Earth captures the extraordinary efflorescence of Gothic architecture in Europe
The man who tamed the Russian bear
Statesmen confronted a stupefying cacophony of crises in the 1980s
How to avoid the Third World War
Tucker marries an English School insight with the thought of two giants of philosophy
The British empire, for good and ill
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning offers the first serious counterblast against the hysterical orthodoxy
Rebadging the past as feel-good therapy
The discipline faces not so much a crisis of history, as a crisis of historicism