The Booker Prize-winning writer eschewed autobiographical novels for historical fiction in a bid to resolve the porous distinction between objective and subjective history, writes Alexander Lee.
Since gaining independence Botswana’s history has not been without turmoil, but the country has emerged as a model African state.
The photographer, designer and aesthete Cecil Beaton brought a distinctly historical awareness to the realm of fashion.
South-East Asia’s ‘Golden Triangle’ dominated the world’s opium production during the 1980s. David Hutt reveals how a young soldier from north Burma took on the United States government to become the region’s most notorious drug lord.
The ‘middle Medici’ – two popes, two dukes, two bastards and a future queen of France – are too often left out of the dynasty’s history. Catherine Fletcher addresses that gap.
Hidden beneath a hill in Cholula, Mexico lies the biggest pyramid ever built.
Archives are one thing, the public another and connecting the two is one of a historian’s hardest challenges, as Suzannah Lipscomb knows from experience.
A Victorian restaurant critic explored the cuisine of London, including its sole vegetarian restaurant.
The author was born on 28 July 1866.
The medievalist Wilhelm Levison was a living embodiment of the deep links between Britain, Germany and a wider Europe.
