The Alienation Effect: How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century by Owen Hatherley follows in ...

America, América: A New History of the New World by Greg Grandin finds a place for Latin America and its ideals in the story ...

The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West by Shaun Walker sheds light on the Soviet ...

As well as Latin Christian victories, it described moments of suffering and struggle – and two occasions in which crusaders ...

Mount’s depiction of Thatcher as a ‘hostage’ stands in stark contrast to her usual image as the ‘Iron Lady’. It raises ...

The Sun Rising: James I and the Dawn of a Global Britain by Anna Whitelock offers a panoramic view of Jacobean foreign policy ...

In 19th-century America abortion was weaponised as part of a culture war.

In a recent tweet, Robert Jenrick, shadow justice secretary, denounced immigrants from ‘alien cultures, who possess medieval attitudes towards women’. He claimed that these ‘medieval attitudes’ were ...

The two Kennedy brothers were assassinated within five years of each other. Robert Francis Kennedy was forty-two when he was shot down in Los Angeles. The seventh child of his family and the ...

The tiny company of American monarchs have, for the most part, been figures of melodrama and pathos, ruling briefly and departing in violence. Maximilian and Carlotta; Christophe, the megalomaniac ...

To her enemies, she was Mrs Satan. To Walt Whitman, she was ‘a prophecy of the future’. To Gloria Steinem, looking back from the 1970s, she was ‘the most controversial suffragist of them all’. But to ...

The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West by Shaun Walker sheds light on the Soviet Union’s undercover intelligence gathering. America, América: A New History of ...