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History books

August 2024

  • Chris Williams

    Letter: Chris Williams obituary

  • Author Jessica Anthony

    In brief: The Most; The Ghost Lake; Anansi’s Gold – reviews

  • Trevor Burnard Wilberforce Institute - 3887 high res

    Trevor Burnard obituary

  • Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire.

    Strange Relations by Ralf Webb review – brave new queer world

  • The Movement: tracing the inspiring figures of second-wave feminism

  • Book of the day
    Goodbye to Russia by Sarah Rainsford review – falling foul of Putin

  • The big idea
    The big idea: how do you get rid of a dictator?

  • In brief: The Newsmongers; The Night in Venice; Vital Organs – review

  • Books interview
    Historian Richard J Evans: ‘I’m planning to write a book about pandemics next. I’ve had enough of Nazis’

July 2024

  • A crowd cheers Keir Starmer’s arrival at Downing Street as the new prime minister

    The Only Way Is Up by Polly Toynbee and David Walker review – climb every mountain

  • ‘They were very clear they didn’t care about history’ … Paul Mescal and Pedro Pascal in the forthcoming Gladiator II.

    Rampant slaughter! Sexy armour! Tiger maulings! We bust the gladiator myths

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    Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England: Staffordshire review – the final word on the nation’s finest buildings

  • Montmartre, Paris.

    Balzac’s Paris: The City as Human Comedy by Eric Hazan review – street spirit

  • Book of the day
    Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum review – the devil you know

  • Book of the day
    Paris ’44: The Shame and the Glory by Patrick Bishop review – a gripping account of the City of Light’s liberation

  • Other lives
    Michael Franklin obituary

  • The History of Ideas by David Runciman review – casting around

  • History for Tomorrow by Roman Krznaric review – looking back, moving forward

  • Mogens Herman Hansen obituary

  • Book of the day
    Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan review – a lacerating exposé

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