When the French revolutionaries specified in the constitution of 1791 that a day of national celebration was to be held each year to “preserve the memory of the French Revolution”, they began a trend ...
Narrative imagination, conceptual insight and rigorous analysis are essential to illuminating history. A Nobel Prize in history should celebrate this interdisciplinary richness, acknowledging scholars ...
Dame Joan Plowright, the actress, who has died aged 95, was the widow of Lord Olivier (formerly Laurence Olivier), and was not only one of the British theatre’s most distinguished interpreters of new ...