Tag Archives: History

Heroic attitudes are all very well and good, but if you don't live to see another day what purpose do they serve?

In the modern context of controversy about the place of women in various churches this is explosive stuff.

Details the essential invisible things that make life so special.

You might think that the world doesn't need another why-the-Roman-empire-collapsed theory. You'd be wrong.

In our eagerness to see justice done we run the serious risk of committing a serious injustice.

The truly memorable scenes are those at the heart of the suffragette struggle.

The best book set in a war zone that you're liable to read in a long time.

Surely there must be a better way of defending the Mahatma's grand vision than this?

President Eisenhower's open skies for peace plan is about to reach its 500th flight.

Takes you gently through the 20th-century horror ride that is the history of the Democratic Republic of Congo.