Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, murdered in his cathedral in 1170 after seven years of bitter quarrel with his old friend Henry II, is one of the most well-known and well-documented figures ...

Until recently, the prime minister was the most important person in British politics. But when the New Statesman published its annual list of the most powerful people on the left in June last year, ...

Part-way through Natasha Brown’s new novel, Universality, Hannah, a struggling freelance journalist who recently managed to climb out of the penurious doldrums of lockdown with a long read that went ...

A contribution to Yale University Press’s Jewish Lives series, The Many Lives of Anne Frank is part biography, part history and part literary and cultural criticism. The first half of the book tells ...

A man’s home is supposed to be his castle. But for a woman, home can be a place of intense danger and violation to both bodily and mental autonomy. What if violence, abuse, poisoning and betrayal lurk ...

A marvellous photograph in the middle of Simon Goldhill’s spry Queer Cambridge: An alternative history shows the twenty-one-year-old Dadie Rylands, future doyen of British theatre, arm in arm with the ...

272pp. University of California Press. £30 (US $35). C. Marina Marchese The world of honey is far richer and more varied than the pallid jars sold in supermarkets would suggest. There’s black honey, ...

It’s Alan Sked, not Brian Holden Reid, who’s “quite wrong” about the causes of the American Civil War (Letters, March 14). Abraham Lincoln did win only a plurality in a four-way race, but as we were ...