Jonathan Sumption

Patrick Joyce’s latest book is really an ode, an elegiac lament for the passing of a distinctive way of life

Doug Stokes challenges the dominant cultural and political narrative which portrays Britain as endemically racist

Most biographies are colored by hero-worship. Carpenter’s is no exception, but the hero isn’t Henry

The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts by Mary Wellesley reviewed

The Gun, the Ship and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern World by Linda Colley reviewed