Some modern scholars believe these to be forgeries written later in antiquity, designed to give the otherwise shadowy figure ...

Annual global population growth is now just over a third of the peak level reached in the 1960s and the rate is falling fast.

No Sketching! - Monsieur Ozenfant’s Academy by Charles Darwent ...

John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers by Jean Strouse; John Singer Sargent: The Charcoal Portraits by Richard Ormond ...

When Churchill declared victory, the young people of the church paraded a full-size effigy of Adolf Hitler to the green and ...

According to the American academic William Kelleher Storey, Rhodes was able to go a long way towards realising his vision ...

Keith Houston’s history of emojis reveals that explicit images as well as political provocations, flagrant brand advertisements and other undesirables fall foul of something called the Unicode ...

In 1843, two years before her death at the age of seventy-two, Cassandra Austen told her brother Charles that she had been ‘looking over & destroying some of my Papers’, but was keeping ‘a few letters ...

T he days when LSD made headlines as ‘The Most Dangerous Thing Since the Atom Bomb’ are long gone; now we’re in a ‘Psychedelic Renaissance’, with Prince Harry drinking ayahuasca tea and Mike Tyson ...

Book Reviews by subject: 20th Century & Espionage & Letters May 2008 Issue M R D Foot In Daily Peril Forgotten Voices of the Secret War: An Inside History of Special Operations During the Second World ...

It wasn’t until 1825 that Pepys’s diary became available for the first time. How it was eventually decrypted and published is a story of subterfuge and duplicity. Kate Loveman tells the tale. Arthur ...

Book Reviews by subject: 18th Century & Europe & French Revolution March 1994 Issue Sebastian Faulks First Scandal Sheets Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Celebres of Prerevolutionary ...