The author's mother was a teacher who became a human rights investigator during the war in Chechnya, and was murdered by Russian-backed forces when her daughter was fifteen. Injustice and im... read more
From the 1780s to (almost) the present; with particular reference to the roles of the Amendment and the Supreme Court. Lepore is a professor at Harvard.
An engaging tour of vanished worlds in Britain and Ireland: besides Doggerland and Dunwich, there's a surreal Victorian amusement park on the Isle of Wight, Bronze Age settlements in the Sci... read more
An engaging tour of vanished worlds in Britain and Ireland: besides Doggerland and Dunwich, there's a surreal Victorian amusement park on the Isle of Wight, Bronze Age settlements in the Sci... read more
The Bibby Resolution started llife as an offshore Swedish oil rig. It has then been sold, renamed and re-purposed several times - as a
barracks (Falkands), prison (US), oil worker quarters... read more
On the forging of a ruthless political mind, plotting to assassinate Caesar and establishing the era of bloody, autocratic rule that would become Rome's undoing.
The uprising of ordinary people in 1524 was the largest before the French Revolution; its end was ghastly. This first revisiting of the subject in a generation is by the Regius Professor of ... read more
A first biography of the late Ronald Blythe, author of Akenfield and many other books and essays. His friends included John and Christine Nash (in whose house he came to live), Cedric Morris... read more
The outlines of this diplomatic mission may have been written about before but what makes this book so enjoyable is the character of the British ambassador, Archie Clark Kerr, about whom his... read more
Before the East India Company took hold, the dazzling Mughal courts received a raggle-taggle caravan of C16th and C17th merchants, priests and adventurers.