In the early 1990s, the newly-married William Dalrymple, arrived with his wife Olivia Fraser in Delhi, where they would spend the first y...

Vishal Mangalwadi’s “The Book That Made Your World”, is by any measure an extraordinary read.   Growing up in the Indian city of Alla...

While the eyes of the world are trained on Russia (as I write we are in the opening week of the 2018 Football World Cup, being hosted the...

Laura Jockusch’s “Collect and Record!” is an essential piece of European historiography. For half a century, the events of the Second Wo...

I had been looking forward to going back down Glen Etive - glorious, spectacular, wonderful Glen Etive - for such a long time. Stob Coir...

  Janice G. Raymond’s book, “Not a Choice, Not a Job: Exposing the Myths About Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade”, describes a spect...

Roberts is a noted historian of Chartism, arguably the greatest of all the Nineteenth Century popular movements for social and political ...

Western observers of Russia today often appear perplexed as to how a nation which emerged so optimistically from under the long shadow ...

Despite having lived in Scotland for all my adult life, (and as much of my middle-age as I have so for used up), I have never been further ...

So much has been written about the relationship between politics and faith in the USA , that the furores around the beliefs of everyone ...

I have yet to read a William Dalrymple which has failed to engage, inspire and educate me; usually about areas in which I am rather ignor...

An illustration from yesterday's sermon!

Winter in Wartime is a Dutch film about life in Holland in the last days of the Nazi occupation of their country during WWII. As the titl...