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British history
There remains little chance that the brothers will patch up their relationship
What makes the events newsworthy beyond mere speculation are the differences — and similarities — in how the stories have made it into the public domain
He saved 669 children that would have almost certainly perished in the Holocaust
He was very at ease in the company of gay men at a time when homosexual acts were illegal
Alexander Goehr’s Composing a Life is a fascinating study of musical transmission
It is not ‘sentimental’ to worry about the world’s oldest English-language magazine being snapped up by the UAE
The Ottoman sultans regularly had their brothers strangled within hours of acceding to the throne
‘If there is a guiding thread through most of my books, it is an aversion to certainty and a fondness for those who doubt’
Even after Emancipation, anti-Catholic prejudice was entrenched in the monarchy, right up to the coronation of George V
