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

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

My Sister and Other Lovers by Esther Freud ...

Keith Houston’s history of emojis reveals that explicit images as well as political provocations, flagrant brand advertisements and other undesirables fall foul of something called the Unicode ...

John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers by Jean Strouse; John Singer Sargent: The Charcoal Portraits by Richard Ormond ...

When Churchill declared victory, the young people of the church paraded a full-size effigy of Adolf Hitler to the green and ...

Annual global population growth is now just over a third of the peak level reached in the 1960s and the rate is falling fast.

Few leaders in history have aspired to territorial aggrandisement on the scale of Cecil Rhodes. The Anglo-Saxons were the finest race in the world, he declared, and ‘the more of the world we inhabit ...