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Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga, now capital of Latvia, in 1909. When he was six, his family moved...

Although Fascist organizations may have failed to attract the support they achieved elsewhere, th...

'People are my landscape', Isaiah Berlin liked to say, and nowhere is the truth of this observati...

As readers, we seem to be increasingly fascinated by studies of individual lives. In this timely,...

In the summer of 1941, as the Germans invade Russia, newspaper reporter Vasily Grossman is swept ...

At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, Western leaders drafted a peace treaty that would punish Germ...

In a brilliantly imaginative blend of military, social and diplomatic history, Norman Longmate re...

Janet Browne is a zoologist and historian of science. She was formerly a Professor in the History...

Formerly of Peterhouse College, Cambridge, and All Souls College, Oxford, Jonathan Clark is curre...

Born Nikolai Pewsner into a Russian-Jewish family in Leipzig in 1902, Nikolaus Pevsner was a dedi...

In this unique take on British history, Roy Strong gives us an entertaining and illuminating look...