Books

Following the stunning victory of Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour Party leadership contest this September, much maligned and supposedly outdated terms such as socialism and collective ownership have started to re-enter British political discourse. As of

In the case of my new book, Guilty Women, Foreign Policy and Appeasement in Inter-war Britain - to twist around a well-worn cliché - you can tell a book by its cover. In less than a thousand words,

Nancy Goldstone’s The Rival Queens: Catherine de Medici, Marguerite de Valois and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom takes the form of a dual biography of Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, and her daughter,

In his latest volume, John Higgs offers a new perspective on the previous century, paying special attention to its more curious products: as varied as Einstein and relativity, surrealism and postmodernism. Delving into these ‘patches

Natalie Livingstone’s The Mistresses of Cliveden is subtitled ‘Three centuries of scandal, power and intrigue’, words almost guaranteed to get a book a place on any popular history bestseller list, alongside the obligatory study of

There are not many people who appear in the indexes of all three of these books, on quite different topics: A Handbook of Medieval Sexuality; Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West, 450-900; and The