Reviews

Is a biography of Chaucer impossible?

An intimate understanding of John Buchan with a scholarly reading of the immense mass of his papers 

Nicholas Hilliard was a portraitist at the pinnacle of his profession.

Christian thinkers whose lives and thoughts connected in 1943, when it looked like the Allies were on top and minds turned to the future. 

A hidden network of 17th-century female spies

The pursuit of astronomical study led a Victorian woman from Surrey to the Indian foothills.

Why is the West so suspicious of Russia? The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It by Mark B. Smith attempts to answer.

Continental Australia has a surprising history of South Asian immigration.

A new book seeks to change the way we look at the Second World War by challenging three enduring myths about Britain’s involvement. 

Arabic was not just spread by the sword, but by merchants, patron-hunting poets and dowry-seeking princes.