Reviews

Arabic was not just spread by the sword, but by merchants, patron-hunting poets and dowry-seeking princes.

The man who, at the time of his death in 2012, was arguably the most famous historian in the world is brought into quotidian focus. 

Meet the members of the 18th-century’s most illustrious club.

The life of Robert Parkin Peters: clergyman, would-be academic and one of the most brazen fraudsters of the 20th century.

The voices of forgotten women in Reformation France.

An account of how belief became opinion.

The real lives of five women who found fame only in the manner of their deaths: murdered by the man we have come to know as ‘Jack the Ripper’.

The life of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus.

Was the massacre of April 1919 a symptom of British oppression, or an exceptional event?

De Gaulle’s secret was an ability to project a sense of French gloire, even when it didn’t really exist.