In Those Who Are About to Die, Harry Sidebottom recounts a story told by St Augustine of a pupil who detested the games but ...

Carthage must be destroyed’ – the most famous thing ever said about Rome’s ancient rival. The words were uttered by the Roman ...

In 1971 Bernard Levin wrote an excoriating article in The Times about the lately deceased former Lord Chief Justice Rayner Goddard, a noisome piece of legal excrement who is said to have ejaculated ...

About Time - Free Creations of the Human Mind: The Worlds of Albert Einstein by Diana Kormos Buchwald & Michael D Gordin ...

Few, I suspect, will instantly recall that 2025 marks four hundred years since the death of James VI and I. He had the ...

Off the Rails is not the definitive history of HS2, but Gimson has clearly set out the sequence of decisions that have ...

I shall not insist here upon Mark Twain as a moralist,’ Howells wrote, ‘though I warn the reader that if he leaves out of the ...

New Tariff in Town - The Economic Consequences of Mr Trump: What the Trade War Means for the World by Philip Coggan ...

The most reticent and troubled member of the so-called New York School of Poets, James Schuyler (1923–91) gave his first ...

The year 2016, the anteroom to the centenary of the Russian revolutions of 1917, has already brought us several books that, in various ways, speak to the epochal events that brought down a ...

‘The moon wanes and waxes, it is never steadfast’, wrote the author of Ancrene Wisse, a 13th-century guide for English anchoresses, ‘and signifies therefore worldly things that are as the moon ever ...