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A Very Private Life – Nikolai Tolstoy Remembers Patrick O’Brian
We look back at the life of the 'greatest historical novelist of all time'
The Lost Kingdoms of South America with Laurence Blair
South Americans are looking at their continent's history afresh, explains Laurence Blair
Jack Delano In Pittsburgh's Mill District (1941)
We search for the source of this classic image by one of twentieth century's great documentary photographers
The Dispatch Edition #2: Pittsburgh, Lord of the Flies & Drowned Villages
Week beginning December 2, 2024
Our Favourite History Books of 2024
From Paris to India, King Richard II to the Commonwealth of England
The Dispatch Edition #1: Shipwrecks, The Armistice & Haunted Museums
Week beginning November 18, 2024
Martha Dodd: A Yank in the KGB
Brendan McNally describes the strange sequence of events that took a girl from Chicago to Nazi Berlin
Lord of the Flies and the Second World War
Dr Nicola Presley traces the hope and despair of William Golding's novel back to the years of war
Winner of the Cundill History Prize: Native Nations
Historian Kathleen DuVal is awarded one of the most prestigious history prizes