War of Words - What is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea by Fara Dabhoiwala ...

Shakespeare’s Tragic Art by Rhodri Lewis; Shakespeare is Hard, but So is Life by Fintan O’Toole ...

Russia’s recent efforts to destabilise the Baltic states have increased enthusiasm for the EU in these places. With Euroscepticism growing in countries like France and Germany, @owenmatth wonders ...

A hundred years ago to be one of a million Englishwomen was to be doomed. Even intelligent and educated girls could not get a post as a governess – there were too many. Hundreds of thousands resorted ...

This is without doubt one of the best biographies to have been written about David Ben-Gurion, perhaps the most interesting Jew of the 20th century. The historian and journalist Tom Segev manages to ...

From Russia with Lucre - Gilbert & George and the Communists by James Birch ...

Are the Baltic Sea states, as former Estonian president Lennart Meri once put it, the factory of Europe’s future? Oliver ...

There was the sheer hatred felt by many Americans for an enemy they regarded as less than human – people have occasionally ...

Women’s Hour - Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ...

Historians call it the Bauernkrieg or German Peasants’ War, but to people at the time it was simply the Aufruhr (‘the turmoil’). Through the second half of 1524 and into the summer of 1525, rebellion ...