On 7 November 1965, Henry Solomons, the Labour MP for the constituency, died after a short illness. He had won the marginal ...

Despite his nostalgia for monarchical institutions, de Gaulle keenly admired Clemenceau, a staunch republican. In his War ...

Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World, recently on display at London’s Michael Werner Gallery, does not try to cover all ...

Some parishioners morphed into willing Protestants; defiant Catholics – recusants – refused to attend services; other ...

Schopenhauer has long held the title of gloomiest philosopher in history. He sees human existence not as grand ...

Parry, who died last month, had a business card in the early 1990s that described him as ‘Jonty ...

All post-liberals have at one point or another declared themselves anti-libertarian. Why is it, then, that once in ...

Anne Higonnet is a professor of art history at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is​ the queen of excess, who teaches us the lessons of history with shepherdess costumes and lace ruffles.

L ate ​ in Claire-Louise Bennett’s novel Big Kiss, Bye-Bye, the unnamed protagonist goes to Montevideo to participate in a ‘panel discussion about violent scenes from movies’. She had hesitated to ...

In his great essay on Surrealism from 1929 Walter Benjamin too underscored its anarchistic dimension. The Surrealists were ‘the first to liquidate the sclerotic liberal-moral-humanistic ideal of ...

Streptomycetes are soil bacteria that could easily be mistaken for fungi, their cells snaking through the earth in ...

Shabana Mahmood is in a different situation from previous minority ethnic home secretaries who were accused of ...