Just a Book?
The story of Thomas Jefferson’s bible, his own version of the Gospels.
Reviews
For Love or Money
A compendious history of political murder.
Who’s First?
The Norse voyages to Greenland and Canada as part of a bigger story.
A Well-Woven Tale
The fabric of the modern world.
All Change
The century that changed London forever.
New Year’s Revolutions
Revisiting 1949, when Mao’s new world beckoned.
More Heat and Light
The varied social, economic and institutional conditions that shaped science over more than two centuries.
‘The Light of Days’ by Judy Batalion review
Renia Kukielka, the Warsaw ghetto uprising and more in The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance by Judy Batalion.
The Power of the Pen
The writing of constitutions is a forgotten artform.
Solving the Insoluble
Was the partition of Ireland an inevitable act?