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Jonathan Bate
The infernal world of Christopher Marlowe
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Dan Hancox
The families of Franco’s victims still seeking justice 50 years after his death
Mon 17 Nov 2025
Richard Ovenden
How to survive an information crisis
Mon 10 Nov 2025
Hannah Rose Woods
Ferdinand Mount’s sentimental revolutions
Mon 10 Nov 2025
Philippe Sands
Inside the mind of Serbia’s ‘Madam War Criminal’
Wed 5 Nov 2025
Olivia Ovenden
Why women keep secrets
Wed 29 Oct 2025
Vanessa Thorpe
The prizewinning author who almost lost his nerve
Sat 25 Oct 2025
Andrew Glazzard
The hijackers who invented modern terrorism
Thu 23 Oct 2025
Jade Cuttle
Phillis Wheatley, the first Black nature poet
Thu 23 Oct 2025
K Biswas
Who should pay the debts of slavery?
Sun 19 Oct 2025
Laurie Bristow
The hotel that tells the story of Kabul
Thu 16 Oct 2025
Giles Whittell
The new US ‘Department of War’ has a long history
Mon 6 Oct 2025
Anthony Quinn
The pages of our lives
Sun 5 Oct 2025
Erica Wagner
The haunting of Pitcairn Island
Fri 5 Sept 2025
Vanessa Thorpe
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to archives
Sun 24 Aug 2025
Erica Wagner
My book relied on archives. Keep them open
Sat 23 Aug 2025
Margaret Mac Millan
The friendly rivalry between Churchill and De Gaulle
Thu 21 Aug 2025
Robin McKie
‘My God, what have we done?’ My father and the bomb
Fri 25 Jul 2025
Rana Mitter
Battle for the soul of Taiwan
Thu 3 Jul 2025
Kate Maltby
History’s women have more to tell us than their fashion choices
Mon 23 Jun 2025
Jude Rogers
A manifesto for British folk culture
Sun 15 Jun 2025
Mark Johanson
Ancient wines in Armenia
Sun 8 Jun 2025
Emily H Wilson
I knew the axe we’d found was old ... but that old?
Sat 31 May 2025
