Peter Burke’s new book helpfully provokes the reader to think about the proper place of a broad education in an age unfriendly to polymathy

This scholarly, readable and objective book will be the standard biography of Sir Edward Grey for decades to come

Jeremy Black recommends the best murder mysteries to read in the New Year

Jeremy Black pores over the latest offerings from the scholarly literature on cartography

Bestialists, radical agriculturalists and fashionable intellectuals will enjoy this book, especially the pictures

In a world of superficial identity politics, Alexandra Wilson’s book offers a nuanced narrative

Matthew Craske’s book challenges the prevailing idea of Joseph Wright as product and servant of rationalism and Enlightenment

Gekoski focuses the protagonist’s nightmarish vilification around the career and writings of Jonathan Swift

Alexander Larman talks to the Creative Editor of Penguin Classics, Henry Eliot about what makes a ‘modern classic’

‘Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, an Address Book, a Life’ is Brigitte Benkemoun’s discovery of the provenance of the address book and what it told her about the owner’s life