History

Suzanne Wrack argues that for women the mere act of playing football is a feminist one, a form of activism. Her book begins...

According to periodic reports in the media, bisexuality has been a brand-new fad since at least the 1890s. It was all the rage...

Amanda Claridge, who has died of cancer aged 72, wrote a much-praised guide to early Rome that remains a phenomenon. Created with the...

For many of us, books are an important part of our lives – but do we want them to change our ideas about...

It was around September 1942, the month when he turned 18, that Rudolf Vrba came to a momentous decision. He had been imprisoned...

Last year a book called The Dawn of Everything announced that most of what we think we know about human history is wrong....

Liza Picard, who has died aged 94, wrote a series of books on London’s social history. The success of the first, Restoration London...

Paul Ginsborg’s book A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics 1943-88 begins: “Italy in 1943 was little changed, outside of its major...

Escape was lunacy, escape was death. To attempt it was suicide. That much had been taught to Walter Rosenberg early, within a week...

In the mid-1960s, Craig McNamara and his mother were both diagnosed with ulcers. Craig has a theory about why they were afflicted simultaneously:...