Unity
How united is Italy?
Professor Jeremy Black and Political Editor Graham Stewart discuss the strength of Italy’s national unity
Crypto-art for cryptomillions
Digital art: the millennial trend
The FARC and me
David Smith recalls time spent with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia: the most murderous army of insurrection in Latin America’s modern history
Facing up to fear
Author Laura Dodsworth on what she learnt while writing her new book, ‘A State of Fear’
How imaginative should historians be?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about archival research and the importance of source material
150 years of Palm Beach
Paul du Quenoy learns how this enclave for the American elite shifted from swamp to swank in Russell Kelley’s: An Illustrated History of Palm Beach
Faustian bargains of the review world
Jeremy Black delves into a history book which disappoints and a biography not to be missed
Syria’s civil war 10 years on
Syria’s war has licensed this century’s worst growth in violent depravity – and it shows no sign of ending soon
A contemptible little army?
How successfully did Britain’s armed forces adapt to the reality of the First World War?
Labouring unloved
In the West we’ve yet to make the acknowledgment that overwork can be deadly, says Katrina Gulliver
The decline of the humanist movement
The puritanical secularism of the American Humanist Association is a stark departure from the founding principles of humanism