Reviews
Four centuries of horticultural endeavours in the modest plots of the ‘lower orders’.
The trials and tribulations of Denis Diderot.
A long and detailed challenge to the modern cult of memory.
The question of the responsibility of the ‘everyman’ and ‘everywoman’ remains a pressing one.
On the women who made imperial Rome.
The story of Afghanistan from the 13th century until the present illuminates why the international intervention that began in 2001 failed to deliver.
A wise and readable narrative history of the United States is a reminder of how tenaciously previous generations have clung to the view that the country is the ‘last, best hope of earth’.
The role birds played in the lives – intellectual, practical, emotional and otherwise – of men and women in the ancient world.
The remarkable rise of John Lilburne.
A professionally organised covert industry satisfied the public’s demand for illicit books in the years before the French Revolution.