The most enigmatic and in some ways the most tragic victim of this process was Richard II. He is the central figure in Helen ...

In just thirteen years, George Villiers rose from plain squire to become the only duke in England and the most powerful politician in the land. Does a new biography finally unravel the secrets of his ...

In just thirteen years, George Villiers rose from plain squire to become the only duke in England and the most powerful politician in the land. Does a new biography finally unravel the secrets of his ...

All for the Thrill of the Chase - Augustus the Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco by Tim Blanning ...

The new Duke of Buckingham now outranked every other nobleman in England. Moreover, his seemingly unassailable place in the ...

It’s not a bad life for the leaders of the British bourgeoisie! There’s plenty for them to protect in their capitalist system ...

Inequality and Britain’s Next Generation by Danny Dorling; Exam Nation: Why Our Obsession with Grades Fails Everyone – and a ...

Paul Gauguin kept house with a teenage ‘wife’ in French Polynesia, islands whose culture he is often accused of ransacking for his art. @StephenSmithWDS asks if Gauguin is still worth looking at. ‘I ...

Paul Gauguin kept house with a teenage ‘wife’ in French Polynesia, islands whose culture he is often accused of ransacking for his art. @StephenSmithWDS asks if Gauguin is still worth looking at. ‘I ...

Paul Gauguin kept house with a teenage ‘wife’ in French Polynesia, islands whose culture he is often accused of ransacking for his art. @StephenSmithWDS asks if Gauguin is still worth looking at. ‘I ...

Paul Gauguin kept house with a teenage ‘wife’ in French Polynesia, islands whose culture he is often accused of ransacking for his art. @StephenSmithWDS asks if Gauguin is still worth looking at. ‘I ...

Diane Abbott was born in Paddington in 1953. Her parents had arrived, separately, from Jamaica in 1950. Reginald, her father, was a machinist and then a sheet-metal worker; her mother, Julia, had been ...