9 December, 2013
Uneven Histories
Brendan Simms writes important counter histories, but his objectivity dwindles when he turns his gaze upon contemporary events.
Category: History
25 November, 2013
Who do people say I am?
Fergus McGhee finds that though Reza Aslan has produced a necessary counter history, he underestimates the power of Jesus' non-violence.
11 November, 2013
Victoria Regia
Priyasha Mukhopadhyay finds that an Amazonian waterlily can offer insight into the interactions between Victorian culture, science and imperialism.
14 October, 2013
An England of the Mind
W.G. Hoskins' reflections on the English landscape veer between historical insight and ill-founded nostalgia.
8 July, 2013
Translating the Untranslatable
In recovering the contexts of Thucydides’s history, Jeremy Mynott faces the perennial challenges of translation.
24 June, 2013
The Indecipherable Cipher
She retains her haunting power, but the official life begins with a Thatcher more real than we might have imagined.
10 June, 2013
Argosies of Magic Sails
Historical figures and grand ambitions are packed into Holmes's narrative basket as he charts the rise of ballooning.
27 May, 2013
Wars of the Weak
A tension emerges between the hawk and the historian in Max Boot's epic account of insurgent warfare.
The Negative of Love
Revisiting Julian Barnes's latest book, Luke Brunning charts a journey towards the moral space of grief.
