Notebooks are snapshots from our writers, reflecting on current affairs and underappreciated aspects of culture and history.
It was the decade of Friends, Bill Clinton and a fresh new pan-European passport. Underneath the teen-pop smile of the nineties there were blemishes.
In the digital age, intellectual debate is more polarising and vituperative than ever. To generate the new thinking needed to navigate our uncertain global landscape we should revi..
Our cities are so saturated in the mythology of the ancient world that classical allusions pop up in unexpected places.
A 17th century reflection on the virtues of travel shows us what is being lost during the pandemic.
The poet Edith Sitwell has more to offer than her infamous reputation suggests.
The King of the Zulus, Cetshwayo, turned defeat into diplomatic success after winning the hearts of the British public.
Reading the Andalusian Arab writer al-Bakri is to go on a magnificent journey through harsh deserts and lands rich in gold watched over by quixotic local rulers.
Eighteenth century literary ephemera give us an insight into the true identity of Bridgerton's elusive Lady Whistledown.
The deceptive tranquility of Norwich's Mousehold Heath was the setting for the first documented case of the anti-semitic 'blood libel' myth.
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