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

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

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

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

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

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

Diane Abbott was born in Paddington in 1953. Her parents had arrived, separately, from Jamaica in 1950. Reginald, her father, was a machinist and then a sheet-metal worker; her mother, Julia, had been ...

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

A N Wilson’s new book is an enthralling, sometimes eccentric homage to a novelist whose works he has loved since childhood. He tops and tails this very personal exploration of Dickens’s many selves, ...

‘The whole point of this book’, the award-winning epidemiologist Professor Tim Spector informs readers of Spoon-Fed, ‘is not to tell you how or what to eat’ – a refreshing change for those who have to ...

Seaweeds are magnificent in their briny home. They are colourful, shapely, buoyant. Stranded by the tide, flaccidness takes over. The once-wafting blades and filigree become dismal heaps on the sand.