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History books

August 2024

  • my student id 1992 in moscow

    Book of the day
    Goodbye to Russia by Sarah Rainsford review – falling foul of Putin

  • dictator presides over computer on/off symbol with finger poised to switch it off

    The big idea
    The big idea: how do you get rid of a dictator?

  • An abstract collage of newspaper headlines

    In brief: The Newsmongers; The Night in Venice; Vital Organs – review

  • Richard Evans sitting in a leather armchair.

    Books interview
    Historian Richard J Evans: ‘I’m planning to write a book about pandemics next. I’ve had enough of Nazis’

July 2024

  • A crowd cheers Keir Starmer’s arrival at Downing Street as the new prime minister

    The Only Way Is Up by Polly Toynbee and David Walker review – climb every mountain

  • ‘They were very clear they didn’t care about history’ … Paul Mescal and Pedro Pascal in the forthcoming Gladiator II.

    Rampant slaughter! Sexy armour! Tiger maulings! We bust the gladiator myths

  • 003 Gladstone Pottery Museum B 0023 JOD

    Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England: Staffordshire review – the final word on the nation’s finest buildings

  • Montmartre, Paris.

    Balzac’s Paris: The City as Human Comedy by Eric Hazan review – street spirit

  • Book of the day
    Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum review – the devil you know

  • Book of the day
    Paris ’44: The Shame and the Glory by Patrick Bishop review – a gripping account of the City of Light’s liberation

  • Other lives
    Michael Franklin obituary

  • The History of Ideas by David Runciman review – casting around

  • History for Tomorrow by Roman Krznaric review – looking back, moving forward

  • Mogens Herman Hansen obituary

  • Book of the day
    Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan review – a lacerating exposé

  • Observer book of the week
    The Umbrella Murder by Ulrik Skotte review – the tireless pursuit of Agent Piccadilly

June 2024

  • Dyan Colclough

    Other lives
    Dyan Colclough obituary

  • The harbour in Voe, North Mainland, Shetland, Scotland, UK<br>2T0PA45 The harbour in Voe, North Mainland, Shetland, Scotland, UK

    In brief: Storm Pegs; Beautiful Days; A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages – review

  • A graphic of an older black-and-white photo of three Black people with an illustration of green flowers overlayed

    How Black Americans have been cheated out of land ownership – and the movement to reverse this

  • A man walks by flags picturing the face of Atatürk during a protest.

    The Endless Country by Sami Kent review – After Atatürk

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