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Eye-witness to the Final Crowning Glory of the Raj

A century ago, my grandmother attended George V’s Coronation Durbar as Emperor of India, an extravaganza worthy of the Moghuls

November 22, 2011

Features·History

Durable Diplomatist

Book review of Castlereagh: Enlightenment, War and Tyranny by John Bew

September 27, 2011

Books·History·UK Politics

The Greatest and Most Terrible

Book review of All Hell Let Loose: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings

September 27, 2011

Books·History

Moderation in (Almost) All

Book review of Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table by Cita Stelzer

September 27, 2011

Books·Food·History

Fornication’s Early Years

Review of Rome by Robert Hughes

August 30, 2011

Books·History

In the Steps of the Spanish

Book reviews of Love: A Secret History by Simon May and All About Love by Lisa Appignanesi

June 28, 2011

Books·History·The Catholic Church

The Genius of Geometry

David Brooks is political flavour of the month this side of the Atlantic, so in thrall is Westminster to Barack Obama

June 28, 2011

Cosmos·History

He Never Had It So Good

Review of The Macmillan Diaries Prime Minister and After, 1957-1966 Edited by Peter Catterall Macmillan

May 24, 2011

Books·History·UK Politics

After Strange Gods

Review of Treason of the Heart: From Thomas Paine to Kim Philby by David Pryce-Jones

May 24, 2011

Books·History·Literature

Blundering in the Desert

Book review of Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda

April 28, 2011

Books·History·Literature

Romanticising Rosa

The Left must abstain from lionizing the life and work of the Polish-born German Marxist martyr, Rosa Luxemburg

March 29, 2011

Communism·Counterpoints·Germany·History

French Lessons in Liberty

Alexis de Tocqueville saw that 19th-century America combated individualism through the art of association. Are there lessons here for Cameron's 21st-century Big Society?

March 28, 2011

Books·France·History·US Politics

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