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The events of the Vietnam War forced the hawkish CIA analyst George Carver to confront the limits of American power. His painful personal journey mirrored a deep crisis in US forei..
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The actor and playwright Noël Coward revelled in his reputation as 'the playboy of the West End World'. In his brief but important career as a spy during the Second World War, he w..
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The formidable socialite and diplomat devoted her life to bringing the United States and Europe closer together. As a trusted adviser to Winston Churchill and, later, Bill Clinton,..
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In her brilliant career as a war correspondent, Virginia Cowles travelled throughout Europe and North Africa during the Second World War, publicising the plight of a besieged Brita..
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The adventurer Frederick Courteney Selous epitomised the Victorian ideal of the gun-toting, daring frontiersman as a force for civilisation, and lent it an everlasting allure...
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In her Parisian bookshop, Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach fashioned a space where writers could experiment, create and collaborate. She leaves a powerful legacy as a patron o..
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Rahab the Harlot is one of the earliest examples of an intelligence operative, and her exploits illustrate the importance ordinary individuals can have in military operations...
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Was St Augustine's thought a forerunner of liberalism? The works of the historian of Late Antiquity, R.A. Markus, are a good place to unearth the foundations of secular society...
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Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III and mother of Edward I, was perhaps the most important female political figure in 13th-century England. Described as a ‘virago’, or female wa..
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Once one of the most famous Jewish figures in the Western world, the novelist Israel Zangwill, chronicler of London's East End, went onto play a leading role in the early history o..