‘Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History’ by Richard J. Evans review
The man who, at the time of his death in 2012, was arguably the most famous historian in the world is brought into quotidian focus.
Reviews
‘The Club’ by Leo Damrosch review
Meet the members of the 18th-century’s most illustrious club.
‘The Professor and the Parson’ by Adam Sisman review
The life of Robert Parkin Peters: clergyman, would-be academic and one of the most brazen fraudsters of the 20th century.
‘The Voices of Nîmes’ by Suzannah Lipscomb review
The voices of forgotten women in Reformation France.
‘The Birth of Modern Belief’ by Ethan H. Shagan
An account of how belief became opinion.
‘The Five’ by Hallie Rubenhold review
The real lives of five women who found fame only in the manner of their deaths: murdered by the man we have come to know as ‘Jack the Ripper’.
‘Walter Gropius’ by Fiona MacCarthy review
The life of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus.
‘Amritsar 1919’ and ‘The Patient Assassin’ review
Was the massacre of April 1919 a symptom of British oppression, or an exceptional event?
‘A Certain Idea of France’ by Julian Jackson book review
De Gaulle’s secret was an ability to project a sense of French gloire, even when it didn’t really exist.
‘India, Empire, and First World War Culture’ by Santanu Das review
India’s First World War experience as seen through personal archives.