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

Keith Houston’s history of emojis reveals that explicit images as well as political provocations, flagrant brand ...

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 ...

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

Incredible but far from unusual is the story of Hercules’s maternal grandfather. Taken captive defending Kyiv from the ...

A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell, 1912–45 by Michael Haag; The Durrells: The Story of a Family by Richard Bradford ...

My Sister and Other Lovers by Esther Freud ...