Household Words

The year of living decisively: The Turning Point, by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, reviewed

4 September 2021 9:00 am

We tend to think of turning points as single moments of change — Saul on the road to Damascus or…

Carnage on the home front: revisiting a forgotten disaster of the first world war

9 May 2015 9:00 am

Philip Hensher on a little-known episode of first world war history when a munitions factory in Kent exploded in April 1916, claiming over 100 lives