The world of honey is far richer and more varied than the pallid jars sold in supermarkets would suggest. There’s black honey ...

At Adam’s funeral, Eve remembers how frightened he was on leaving Paradise and catching flu. But in old age, he had confided ...

A contribution to Yale University Press’s Jewish Lives series, The Many Lives of Anne Frank is part biography, part history ...

A marvellous photograph in the middle of Simon Goldhill’s spry Queer Cambridge: An alternative history shows the ...

Philip Marsden has made his home in Cornwall, an improbable hotspot for mineral wealth. “In the early nineteenth century, ...

I did a big lecture (big for me, anyway) at the Leon Levy Center for Biography. It was in a way Daniel in the lions' den, for ...

‘Winter was a white page / soon to be ripped / from the calendar / says the rippling script / of Canada geese’ – Jon Stallworthy ...

‘Spring with its thrusting leaves and jargling birds is here again / to remind me again of the first real Event’ - W. H. Auden ...