In just thirteen years, George Villiers rose from plain squire to become the only duke in England and the most powerful politician in the land. Does a new biography finally unravel the secrets of his ...

In just thirteen years, George Villiers rose from plain squire to become the only duke in England and the most powerful politician in the land. Does a new biography finally unravel the secrets of his ...

The most enigmatic and in some ways the most tragic victim of this process was Richard II. He is the central figure in Helen ...

The new Duke of Buckingham now outranked every other nobleman in England. Moreover, his seemingly unassailable place in the ...

It’s not a bad life for the leaders of the British bourgeoisie! There’s plenty for them to protect in their capitalist system ...

All for the Thrill of the Chase - Augustus the Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco by Tim Blanning ...

Inequality and Britain’s Next Generation by Danny Dorling; Exam Nation: Why Our Obsession with Grades Fails Everyone – and a ...

The Wright Stuff - The Invention of British Art by Bendor Grosvenor ...

Atomic Achievements - The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science by Dava Sobel ...

Paul Gauguin kept house with a teenage ‘wife’ in French Polynesia, islands whose culture he is often accused of ransacking for his art. @StephenSmithWDS asks if Gauguin is still worth looking at. ‘I ...

It takes a brave writer to tackle once more the monumental figure of W H Auden. Any new book appears against the background of John Fuller’s exhaustive literary and bibliographical work on the poet, ...

One day in 2013, police sped through the streets of La Crosse, Wisconsin, in pursuit of a car involved in a drive-by shooting. Once arrested, the driver, Eric Loomis, denied participating in the ...