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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
Jon Ungoed-Thomas
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
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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
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
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
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
