History

Why are the international super-rich insufficiently grateful to the British?

An old press cutting provided the key to a defiant tale of life after Auschwitz

At times Portrait of a Muse feels like a Julian Fellowes soap opera where we see this woman of extraordinary vivacity making great men go weak at the knees

Much of Wisdom of the Ancients makes one appreciate how we get sidetracked by so much trivial nonsense

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

Black’s History Week, with Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart

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

The rise and fall of Dominic Cummings recalls the role of another eccentric who changed British politics

Street names go woke, David Brent gets his wish, a historian quotes the past and The Vicar of Dibley takes the knee