The masculinity that Gerald represented, and that Peter was suggesting, was as far removed as possible from the secular ...

A few weeks later, the NVA evicted Dao’s family. Escaping Vietnam by boat in 1979, Dao fled to a refugee camp in Malaysia, ...

A s opening lines for a history go, this is an excellent one. Its author was the teenage Jane Austen, in a lively short piece ...

Arsenic was a hidden killer in Victorian homes, but it also played a large part in the British economy. Which comes first: ...

Heresies in history die hard; and the worst kind of school text-book, oversimplified and written down to the intelligence of the weakest pupils, helps to perpetuate popular errors. “Palmerston (we ...

As a boy in military school, Charles Barbier de La Serre (1767-1841) was taught that war was a noble profession in which victories are won by intelligence and valour. As a man, he would come to learn ...

Whenever intellectual life at Henry VII’s court is discussed, invidious comparisons are made with his son’s establishment. Invariably the father comes off second-best, looking like an old miser: too ...