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History books

June 2024

  • Boris Berezovsky. Leaves Bow Street Magistrates Court, wearing a mask depicting Vladamir Putin, the Russian president. London. 02-04-2003. Photograph by Martin Godwin.

    Book of the day
    The Kremlin’s Noose by Amy Knight review – vital primer on Putin’s Russia and Boris Berezovsky’s death

  • A Rohingya family reaches the Bangladesh border after crossing a creek of the Naf river on the border with Myanmmar, in Cox's Bazar's Teknaf area, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

    On the Shadow Tracks by Clare Hammond review – a train to Myanmar’s dark heart

  • Richard Abraham

    Other lives
    Richard Abraham obituary

  • A Nazi parade in Vienna in about 1930, with marchers holding swastikas and giving Nazi salutes

    ‘The greatest thinker you’ve never heard of’: expert who explained Hitler’s rise is finally in the spotlight

  • Revealed: the secret love story behind the slapstick of author Tom Sharpe

  • Summer reading: 50 of the best new books to dive into

  • Sir John Boardman obituary

  • The Language of War by Oleksandr Mykhed review – ‘Eat, kill, grief, repeat’ reflections from Ukraine

  • Book of the day
    Challenger by Adam Higginbotham review – chronicle of a disaster foretold

  • God’s Ghostwriters by Candida Moss review – did enslaved scribes write the New Testament?

  • In brief: Sandwich; How to Love Your Daughter; Mapmatics – review

  • Book of the day
    The Architecture of Modern Empire by Arundhati Roy review – two decades of fire

  • In brief: History in the House; Rabbits; Summer in Baden-Baden – review

  • Key US independence document bore arms of British king

  • ‘Imperial nostalgia has become so extreme’: Sathnam Sanghera on the conflict surrounding colonial history

  • Book of the day
    Broken Threads by Mishal Husain review – a spectacular family chronicle of partition

  • Observer book of the week
    The Roads to Rome by Catherine Fletcher; Italy Reborn by Mark Gilbert reviews – the long path to prosperity

May 2024

  • The opening night of Macbeth in 1936.

    Book of the day
    The Playbook by James S Shapiro review – a very 1930s culture war

    This history of the bitter fight over the Federal Theatre Project has disturbing lessons for today’s politics
  • Margaret Thatcher with Ronald Reagan in 1981.

    The Invisible Doctrine by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison review – neoliberalism’s ascent

    An incisive analysis of how the controversial ideology has permeated modern life
  • Paul Daley

    Biographers, resharpen your pencils! The University of Melbourne’s shameful history of racism awaits

    Paul Daley
    Good history is not static. It is intrinsically up for challenge. And this long-overdue truth-telling opens up ripe ground for a reckoning
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