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History books

May 2024

  • James Waghorne, Ross Jones and Marcia Langton at the University of Melbourne

    ‘Denying history is simply lying’: how the University of Melbourne honoured racists, thieves and body snatchers

  • Richard Flanagan.

    Question 7 by Richard Flanagan review – the Booker winner’s beautiful, unclassifiable memoir-cum-novel

  • Russian troops charge down a street with buildings ablaze during the advance through Poland, 1944

    Book of the day
    Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won the War by Jonathan Dimbleby review – the Red army’s advance into history

  • Internally displaced Palestinians keep moving after Israeli evacuations orders in Rafah.

    Book of the day
    What Does Israel Fear from Palestine? by Raja Shehadeh review – making sense of senseless violence

  • Book of the day
    Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion by Agnes Arnold-Forster review – the past isn’t a foreign place

  • Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control; Wuhan: A Documentary Novel – reviews

  • The Year of Living Constitutionally: a man, a political plan … and a musket

  • Books for a better world: as chosen by Lenny Henry, Geri Halliwell-Horner, Andrew O’Hagan and others

  • Audiobook of the week
    Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad by Daniel Finkelstein audiobook review – a gripping tale of endurance

  • Catland by Kathryn Hughes review – paws for thought

  • Other lives
    Chris Williams obituary

  • Wide Awakes: the young Americans who marched the north to civil war

  • The Missing Thread; Table for Two; Cinema Speculation – reviews

  • ‘I have my iPhone, X and a brain in my head’: Ukrainian journalist and social media star Illia Ponomarenko

  • Book of the day
    Cypria by Alex Christofi review – island records

  • The Struggle for Taiwan by Sulmaan Wasif Khan review – dire straits

  • Award-winning UK teacher aims to show adults their historical blind spots

  • The Audio Long Read
    Solar storms, ice cores and nuns’ teeth: the new science of history – podcast

April 2024

  • PLANET OF THE APES 1968 20th Century Fox sci-fi film<br>2WMB4DC PLANET OF THE APES 1968 20th Century Fox sci-fi film

    Book of the day
    Everything Must Go by Dorian Lynskey review – why is it always apocalypse now?

  • Roger Boase

    Other lives
    Roger Boase obituary

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