the Suez crisis

Jan Morris’s ‘national treasure’ status is misleading

8 October 2022 9:00 am

Almost two years after the death of Jan Morris, the jaunty travel writer and pioneer of modern gender transition, her…

The radical history of The Spectator

26 April 2020 5:53 pm

A newspaper – it would be more than 100 years before it became a magazine – calling itself a spectator…

A child freedom fighter in Budapest, 1956

1956: the year of living dangerously

13 February 2016 9:00 am

The book of the year has long been a favoured genre in popular history, and is a commonplace today. While…