The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Oscar Heinrich, ‘The American Sherlock Holmes’ is the most famous criminalist you’ve likely never heard of. Looking at his photograph, I was struck by something that seemed like an odd observation at the time—Heinrich was quite handsome for a tightly wound scientist....
The Wolfson History Prize 2021 Rebecca Clifford Rebecca, congratulations on your nomination for the Wolfson History Prize of 2021 from Aspects of History. Why did you choose your particular subject? This is a two-pronged answer. Most important prong, I’ve worked with...
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Books on Bond 5 - Ian Fleming, by Andrew Lycett, 1995. Lycett is an accomplished and celebrated literary biographer; his books on Kipling, Dylan Thomas and Wilkie Collins are close to definitive. He brings the same levels of research and insight to his book on...
On 4 June 1929, a photograph of Winston Churchill appeared on the back page of the Daily Herald. It showed him outside 11 Downing Street, the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s residence which he had not yet vacated following the defeat of the Conservative government at a...
The seeds of the German nation, nursed into being by the wily statesman Bismarck, were sown in Prussia’s humiliation in the Napoleonic Wars. By the time the fragmented German states got their act together, fought back and won at Leipzig in 1813, the journey to...
The Armies March, by John Cudahy. A personal account of the early days of Nazi Germany’s sweeping invasion and conquering of Europe.
The Land of Green Ginger by Winifred Holtby.
Murder in Piccadilly: A Classic Mystery from the Genre's Golden Age by Charles Kingston
Our affair ended when eventually I tired of Jim’s reluctance to say that he loved me. I fell victim instead, if victim is the right word, to something I now know is called the ‘proximity effect’. Proximity in this case was an engineering student on the second floor...
