History
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Editors' picks
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There has been endless debate about the crises of 1938. Seventy years later, scholars have finally agreed on some conclusions, writes Ian Kershaw -
Orlando Figes talks to Guy Dammann about his fifth book, The Whisperers: Private Life under Stalin's Russia, and why talking to 'invisible people' was so invaluable to its construction
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Of all the Roman emperors, Hadrian seems the most recognisable. But, as the British Museum explores his legacy in a new exhibition, Mary Beard asks to what extent he is our own creation
Latest reviews
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Oct 12 2008:
Review: The People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
This lively historical novel is brightened by a clever, urbane narrator, writes Robert Collins -
Oct 12 2008:
Review: The American Future by Simon Schama
Amid the purple prose and shameless name-dropping, a serious book is trying to break out, writes Dominic Sandbrook -
Oct 11 2008:
Review: Tulipmania by Anne Goldgar
Goldgar shows most of the stories about tulipmania are moralising myths, says PD Smith -
Oct 11 2008:
Review: The Great Crash | The Ascent of Money | The Gods that Failed
Three timely studies of past and present financial crises paint a colourful cast of cartoon villains, finds James Buchan -
Oct 11 2008:
Review: Round About a Pound a Week by Maud Pember Reeves
I finished it in a state of incandescent anger, flared like a gas mantle, says Vera Rule - All Reviews
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Oct 12 2008:
Review: The People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
This lively historical novel is brightened by a clever, urbane narrator, writes Robert Collins -
Oct 12 2008:
Review: The American Future by Simon Schama
Amid the purple prose and shameless name-dropping, a serious book is trying to break out, writes Dominic Sandbrook -
Oct 11 2008:
Review: Tulipmania by Anne Goldgar
Goldgar shows most of the stories about tulipmania are moralising myths, says PD Smith -
Oct 11 2008:
Review: The Great Crash | The Ascent of Money | The Gods that Failed
Three timely studies of past and present financial crises paint a colourful cast of cartoon villains, finds James Buchan -
Oct 11 2008:
Review: Round About a Pound a Week by Maud Pember Reeves
I finished it in a state of incandescent anger, flared like a gas mantle, says Vera Rule -
Oct 10 2008:
Alec Ryrie's compelling new history recovers the tale of Gregory Wisdom, one of Tudor England's most accomplished swindlers. Here we see his 'magical ring' seducing a young nobleman with gambling debts
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Oct 9 2008:
Cambridge University historian identifies rural revivalist Rolf Gardiner as true youth culture pioneer
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Oct 5 2008:
Paperback of the week: Austerity Britain by David Kynaston
This is a fat and soul-enriching account of the period between VE Day 1945 and the Festival of Britain in 1951, writes Simon Garfield -
Oct 4 2008:
Review: Beyond Chutzpah by Norman G Finklestein
Jewish American academic argues that legitimate criticism of Israeli policy is possible writes Ian Pindar -
Oct 4 2008:
Waterstone's, October 8
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Oct 4 2008:
Review: The Whisperers by Orlando Figes
Drawing on hundreds of family archives, Figes follows the private lives of an entire Russian generation says Ian Pindar -
Oct 4 2008:
John le Carré's A Most Wanted Man, Will Self's new collection of short fiction and praise for Richard Holmes' The Age of Wonder
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Oct 4 2008:
Review: Churchill's Wizards by Nicholas Rankin
Churchill's plans to trick Germany were a magnet for frauds and fantasists. By Piers Brendon -
Oct 4 2008:
Review: Our Times by AN Wilson
Tristram Hunt on a scintillating indictment of Britain's national collapse -
Oct 4 2008:
Review: Millennium by Tom Holland
Norman Stone looks back to a formative era wracked by questions of power, faith and sex
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