The central theme of Republic and Empire is the imperial character of the American Revolution. The Navigation Acts Britain ...

Sense & Sensibility - Mrs Kauffman and Madame Le Brun: The Entwined Lives of Two Great Eighteenth-Century Women Artists by ...

As Kimber points out, however, Mansfield was a champion dissembler. And her life was the stuff of stories. Born into a prosperous New Zealand family, she was a self-styled bohemian who sought ...

Degrees of Disgrace - The History and Pre-History of Hertford College, Oxford: Survival and Renewals by Christopher Tyerman ...

The Pen & the Spade - The Poems of Seamus Heaney by Rosie Lavan, Bernard O’Donoghue and Matthew Hollis (edd.) ...

Concern about where the rubbish of the rich ends up is not new. In 1960 Vance Packard wrote The Waste Makers, and two years later Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring drew attention to the exploding use of ...

A Life Lost and Found by Andrew Graham-Dixon ...

Corresponding with Bertrand Russell in 1922, Joseph Conrad confessed: ‘I have never been able to find in any man’s book or any man’s talk anything … to stand up for a moment against my deep-seated ...

In the long history of Western culture, it is given to very few to have an entire era named after them. Socrates sits within Antiquity, Leonardo da Vinci within the Renaissance; even Shakespeare has ...

At one point in Defining Hitler its author asks the reader the rhetorical question: why bother to read this book? For many writers this would be a merited act of authorial self-destruction. In Haffner ...

‘My whole life has been a search for the miraculous,’ Bruce Chatwin says. Each of these essays, fragments and sketches written between 1972 and the author’s recent death are way-stations in the search ...