London has always been famous for its many and beautiful parks”, announced a 1966 guidebook to the capital; “just what those ...

I first went to look at medieval manuscripts in Longleat House in the early 1970s. In those days readers were placed in an ...

A revolutionary who critiqued Marx; a Christian who refused baptism; a Jew who held Jewishness in contempt: Simone Weil was a ...

It is 2022, and Phyl, after completing her university degree, has returned home to live with her parents in the quaintly named village of Rookthorne, from where she commutes to a zero-hours job at ...

“Only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mind”, W. B. Yeats wrote in 1927; “sex and the dead.” ...

Forty-one-year-old Police Constable Trevor Lock was at his usual post, guarding the Iranian embassy in London, on the morning of April 30, 1980. At 11.36 he noticed a young man whom he took to be ...

The French economist Thomas Piketty is best-known for Le Capital au XXIe siècle (2013; Capital in the Twenty-First Century, 2014) – a study intimidating in length (704 pages, with an audio version ...