Through a Glass Darkly
The real history of wine can be a dry – even bitter – beverage.
Giles MacDonogh
To Frame a Painter
A society portraitist who emigrated to Britain from Hungary found himself embroiled in a drama of divided loyalties during the First World War.
Stauffenberg: Portrait of a Plotter
The views and actions of the man who tried to kill Hitler.
French Wine: A History
Chaos and crisis in over two millennia of French winemaking.
The King of Carlyle
Giles MacDonogh visits the History Today archive to examine Nancy Mitford’s 1968 article on one of the ‘oddest’ biographies ever written, Thomas Carlyle’s massive study of Frederick the Great.