The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Coronation is the ultimate pocket-sized companion to what has become an exclusively British preoccupation, (the last European crowning was in 1922). There is no better guide to Elizabeth's 1953 bonanza than royal biographer Hugo Vickers whose up close and personal...
Marc Morris, what first attracted you to the period in which you work? That’s an easy one. As an undergraduate at King’s College London, I was surprised and delighted that I could pick my own modules to study. I felt that I had done lots on the Tudors and 20th century...
In his latest biography on royalty, Matthew Dennison has written an empathetic, and balanced, life story of our Sovereign, Queen Elizabeth. His book is not just another narrative of her life; rather, an informed analysis of her personality, the pressures and...
Andrew Roberts on George III, the 'Mad King' and monarch during the American War of Independence. | RSS.com
Tudors in Love - Sarah Gristwood on Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn and their courtly love. | RSS.com Tudors in Love - Sarah Gristwood on Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and courtly love - Part Two | RSS.com
Aspects of History - Roger Moorhouse on the invasion of Poland in 1939 | RSS.com Roger Moorhouse on the invasion of Poland in 1939 - Part Two | RSS.com
Barney White-Spunner, was your third book, having written previously about the military, why did you want to write Berlin? I first went to Berlin as a soldier in the 1980s so well before the Wall came down. It made an immediate impact. It was not like anywhere I had...
The Island of Extraordinary Captives Marjan Rawicz surveyed the crowd gathered on the terraced lawn in front of his grand piano. Rawicz was used to giving well-attended performances at illustrious venues: during the past few years the forty-two-year-old musician had...
Can History Be Saved? Vladimir Putin is not only presiding over a massive invasion of a neighbouring country, he is dictating how Russians should understand past events—not just over Ukraine but long before, ordering huge revisions in what history is taught in schools...
Crécy: Finest Hours is a highly engaging exploration of the background of the Hundred Years’ War, the Battle of Crécy, and its aftermath. Gordon Corrigan presents Crécy as a key turning point in English military history, representative of the shifts in English society...
