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Martin Fletcher
The state-sponsored murderers of Britain’s ‘dirty war’
Thu 16 Jul 2026
James Tapper
Meet the Bluestones: an ancient Stonehenge family revealed by very modern science
Sun 12 Jul 2026
Xavier Greenwood
Homer: enigmatic Greek poet on an odyssey to Hollywood
Sun 12 Jul 2026
Rupert Neate
The Jurassic perk of being super-rich: your very own dinosaur
Sun 12 Jul 2026
John Bew
The political thinkers who envisaged a better postwar world
Thu 25 Jun 2026
Seun Matiluko
Reclaiming the story of Africa
Wed 10 Jun 2026
William Boyd
Anthony Blunt, the spy who outwitted them all
Tue 9 Jun 2026
Rowan Williams
William Tyndale, the radical who rewrote the Bible
Fri 5 Jun 2026
Wendy Ide
Savage House is a grotesque satire of shameless social climbing
Thu 4 Jun 2026
Vanessa Thorpe
Historic lost issues of actors directory are found with help from The Observer
Sun 31 May 2026
Vanessa Thorpe
Lloyd’s acknowledges historic role in slave trade with new requiem mass
Sat 30 May 2026
Stephanie Merritt
Erica Wagner’s Wash is historical fiction at its most alive
Wed 27 May 2026
Gabriel Gatehouse
Did the CIA poison England’s chance of being 1970 World Cup champions?
Sun 24 May 2026
Susie Boniface
Nuclear test veterans hope for justice as secret files are released
Sun 24 May 2026
Vanessa Thorpe
How a love-starved childhood inspired David Lean, cinema’s great romantic
Sat 16 May 2026
The women who brought the Nazis to justice
Wed 13 May 2026
William Keegan
Keir Starmer’s losses summon return of the ‘gnomes of Zurich’
Sun 10 May 2026
My gorilla encounter left me overwhelmed with a feeling of extraordinary privilege
Sun 3 May 2026
Colin Kidd
How the General Strike changed Britain
Sat 2 May 2026
Rachel Sylvester
Mary Beard: ‘If you could be buried somewhere like this for eternity, that’d be lovely’
Sun 12 Apr 2026
Vanessa Thorpe
After 150 years, Mill’s wife gets credit for role in political opus
Sun 22 Mar 2026
Nicola Sturgeon
The avoidable tragedy of Dunblane
Thu 12 Mar 2026
Luke Turner
The hidden history of Britain’s fight for queer rights
Fri 6 Mar 2026
Anthony Quinn
How the British let loose between the wars
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Afua Hirsh
48 mins • S1, E3
Tim Adams
Snap happy: a century of photo booths
Sun 8 Feb 2026
Barnaby Phillips
Return of 100 Benin bronzes puts British Museum on the spot
Sun 8 Feb 2026
William Lindesay
How I found my kindred spirit along the Great Wall of China
Fri 6 Feb 2026
Abhrajyoti Chakraborty
When India was the seat of Islam
Fri 23 Jan 2026
Sir Richard Lambert
Trump’s attacks on the Smithsonian are straight from the autocrat’s playbook
Mon 12 Jan 2026
Jessica Bateman
‘My grandfather was a Wehrmacht soldier. It left him a broken man’
Mon 29 Dec 2025
Kenan Malik
We’re ‘bowling alone’ politically when we should be rallying for change
Sun 28 Dec 2025
David Barnett
In search of the ghosts of Christmas past
Fri 19 Dec 2025
Ian Thomson
The great Italian escape
Wed 17 Dec 2025
Richard Ovenden
In defence of pedantry
Sat 13 Dec 2025
Luke Turner
Lament for a lost London
Sat 6 Dec 2025
Tom Larkin
The Observer in brief: 234 years of history in 6 minutes
Thu 4 Dec 2025
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
