Books
Wars Ancient and Modern
The English Civil Wars 1640-1660 by Blair Worden
A Joy For Ever
Beauty by Roger Scruton
Revolutionary Woman
Dancing to the Precipice: Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution by Caroline Moorehead
Taking the Biscuit
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
Postcards From the Damned
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
The Evolution of Darwin
The Young Charles Darwin by Keith Thomson
Darwin’s Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins by Adrian Desmond and James Moore
Why Us? How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves by James Le Fanu
The Guru of Gossip
Maurice Bowra: A Life by Leslie Mitchell
Desperation’s Noticeboard
Classified: The Secret History of the Personal Column by H.G. Cocks
Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary by Miri Rubin
Lovelorn Landscape
Constable in Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter by Martin Gayford
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?