History

From music to medicine: the secrets of a Kensington home

Is Parliament a check on the executive or its enabler?

J. C. D. Clark delves into Extinction Rebellion’s new pamphlet in search of something more

Brexiteers are right: parliamentary sovereignty is inextricably linked with national sovereignty

Tibor Fischer review’s Gimson’s Presidents: Brief Lives from Washington to Trump by Andrew Gimson

Jamie Blackett reviews Vintage Roger: Letters from the PoW years by Roger Mortimer

Michael Bentley reviews The Englightenment that Failed by Jonathon Israel

Jonathon Green reviews A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders

George Orwell pursued women with enthusiasm and varying degrees of success

Growing up in the Eighties was a story of aspiration — and anxiety