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Nottingham alabaster: objects of strangeness, mystery and devotion
How the English Reformation tried to obliterate a unique medieval artform
Jan 30, 2025
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The writer's bookshelf: Sarah Gristwood
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
Dec 22, 2025
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Merry Christmas from the Broken Compass
A round-up of everything I've written over the last twelve months
Dec 19, 2025
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The writer's bookshelf: Victoria Moul
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Re-imagining Elizabethan London
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History in plain sight: four Anglo-Saxon churches to visit
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Nagasaki 1945
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The Midnight Folk: memory, magic, and consolation
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Twelve books to look out for in August
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Review: Holbein by Elizabeth Goldring
The definitive scholarly biography of a Renaissance master
Dec 17, 2025
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The writer's bookshelf: Gerry Cambridge
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
Dec 15, 2025
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Beyond The Jungle Book: Kipling, Orwell, Rushdie and me
What Kipling's critics get wrong about his writing
Dec 12, 2025
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Review: Mexico: A 500-Year History by Paul Gillingham
A masterful account of one of the world's most complex and storied nations
Dec 10, 2025
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The writer's bookshelf: Francesca Peacock
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
Dec 8, 2025
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Going, going, gone #6
Ten of my favourite works at this week's auctions at Christie's, Bonham's and Sotheby's in London
Dec 4, 2025
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The writer's bookshelf: Nicola Chester
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
Dec 1, 2025
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Sixteen books to look out for in November (part two)
Upcoming history and non-fiction titles that have caught my eye
Nov 28, 2025
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Sixteen books to look out for in November (part one)
Upcoming history and non-fiction titles that have caught my eye
Nov 26, 2025
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