Reviews

In the Arabian peninsula, non-Muslim groups were converted, driven out or killed by Islamic armies. In Syria, they were not.

Why do we have a fixation with Alma Mahler?

The notion that Jews were responsible for both capitalism and communism was widespread in the early 20th century.

An admirable retelling of the traditional history of appeasement.

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.