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History books
August 2024
Letter: Chris Williams obituary
In brief: The Most; The Ghost Lake; Anansi’s Gold – reviews
Trevor Burnard obituary
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
The Only Way Is Up by Polly Toynbee and David Walker review – climb every mountain
Rampant slaughter! Sexy armour! Tiger maulings! We bust the gladiator myths
Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England: Staffordshire review – the final word on the nation’s finest buildings
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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