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 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 ...

Character, courage and the absence of her family made Mary Kingsley a pioneer explorer of West Africa. Her doctor father, George Kingsley, a younger brother of the much better known novelist and ...

In The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991 Vladislav Zubok argues that circumstance rather than ideology shaped the clash ...

In the early Middle Ages a new ceremony was invented that would underpin the ideology of European monarchies for a millennium and more: the royal consecration. This ceremony, in which the Church and ...