US foreign policy in South America used to differ from its approach to Central America and the Caribbean. In the ...

A shifting array of hundreds of reproductions showing the art and architecture of two millennia, carefully selected ...

A shifting array of hundreds of reproductions showing the art and architecture of two millennia, carefully selected and arranged without regard for orthodox historical conventions, Aby Warburg’s ...

The conflict in West Papua may be the world’s most unequal war: raids on military bases have improved the West ...

David talks to Mark Ford and Seamus Perry, hosts of Political Poems, about what makes a great political poem. Can great poetry be ideological? How much does context matter? And is it possible to tell ...

In the last six months human rights officials at both the Council of Europe and the United Nations have written to the German authorities to remind them of their obligation to protect, rather than ...

More than three hundred British Library workers are on strike this week. They are demanding an inflation-proof pay rise, restoration for last year’s shortfall and an ‘end to non-payment of alternative ...

Above Côte Brasserie in Kingston upon Thames, overlooking its Riverside Walk, there was for a week in mid-November a very long billboard depicting crowds in sackcloth and red hats trimmed in white, ...

‘If George comes to Chicago,’ the mayor said, ‘I’ll crack him in the snoot!’ The ‘George’ was King George V. The mayor in 1927 was Big Bill Thompson, who ran the city in cahoots with Al Capone. He was ...

In The Impact of Labour, Maurice Cowling wrote that politics in the 1920s was ‘fifty or sixty people’ in tension with one another. The Battle of Ideas, which packed out Church House for a weekend in ...

When the ceasefire was announced on 9 October there were videos of Palestinian journalists, who had been targeted for months, taking off their helmets. Children chattered about going back to school ...

Jonathan Tokeley-Parry, who died last month, had a business card in the early 1990s that described him as ‘Jonty “Brown Trews” Tokeley: Smuggler and Fabricator of Egyptian Antiquities’. ‘Jonty’ was a ...