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How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley and Iris Murdoch transformed philosophy for a postwar world.

By Tom Whyman

From politics and science to history and pop, the essential books for the year ahead.

By Tom Gatti

The year's essential reading in 20 titles.

By New Statesman

The late David Graeber’s history of early human societies presents civilisation as a descent from anarchy into servility. But was…

By John Gray

How Margaret Thatcher consolidated her power – not thanks to the Falklands War, but because of an opposition that underestimated…

By John Gray

The historian was prescient in warning that the value of facts depends on who wields them.

By Helen Carr

The mental illness of monarchs has been a fruitful subject for historians, but in Henry VI's case his illness led…

By Nigel Jones

For many, it is the Salem witch trials that immediately spring to mind when thinking about the topic. But there…

By Rebecca Rideal

Stephen Greenblatt's book is a pellucid and absorbing account of the Biblical tale's great significance.

By John Gray

Two histories of the Holocaust reveal the what we didn't know about the concentration camps.

By Joanna Bourke

New studies by Edward Wakeling and Robert Douglas-Fairhurst uncover the story of one of literature's most debated men.

By Lyndall Gordon

The danger of using current terminology and identities when discussing the past, especially marginalised and oppressed pasts, is that it…

By Claire Hayward

Reading Johnson’s The Churchill Factor is like “being harangued for hours by Bertie Wooster” writes Richard J Evans.

By Richard J Evans