Lord Byron

Book Review

Of Lord Byron’s faults, writing dull letters wasn’t one of them

Andrew Stauffer has approached what would otherwise be a fairly standard life of the poet through an unusual prism

Alexander Larman

Lady Caroline Lamb and the frantic bed-hopping between the great houses of England

Antonia Fraser paints a convincing, shocking picture of upper-class mores in the late eighteenth century

Harry Mount

Byron’s mistress Lady Caroline Lamb scandalizes society

The men arrayed here come across poorly

Alexander Larman

Why the coronavirus crisis is likely to bring Europe together

History offers a measure of hope in these dark times

Nick Jubber

High Life

Standing on the Acropolis brings out the Greek in me

Greece for me is territorial, but for many foreigners it is cultural and artistic

Taki