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History books

July 2024

  • A crowd cheers Keir Starmer’s arrival at Downing Street as the new prime minister

    The Only Way Is Up by Polly Toynbee and David Walker review – climb every mountain

  • ‘They were very clear they didn’t care about history’ … Paul Mescal and Pedro Pascal in the forthcoming Gladiator II.

    Rampant slaughter! Sexy armour! Tiger maulings! We bust the gladiator myths

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    Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England: Staffordshire review – the final word on the nation’s finest buildings

  • Montmartre, Paris.

    Balzac’s Paris: The City as Human Comedy by Eric Hazan review – street spirit

  • Book of the day
    Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum review – the devil you know

  • Book of the day
    Paris ’44: The Shame and the Glory by Patrick Bishop review – a gripping account of the City of Light’s liberation

  • Other lives
    Michael Franklin obituary

  • The History of Ideas by David Runciman review – casting around

  • History for Tomorrow by Roman Krznaric review – looking back, moving forward

  • Mogens Herman Hansen obituary

  • Book of the day
    Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan review – a lacerating exposé

  • Observer book of the week
    The Umbrella Murder by Ulrik Skotte review – the tireless pursuit of Agent Piccadilly

June 2024

  • Dyan Colclough

    Other lives
    Dyan Colclough obituary

  • The harbour in Voe, North Mainland, Shetland, Scotland, UK<br>2T0PA45 The harbour in Voe, North Mainland, Shetland, Scotland, UK

    In brief: Storm Pegs; Beautiful Days; A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages – review

  • A graphic of an older black-and-white photo of three Black people with an illustration of green flowers overlayed

    How Black Americans have been cheated out of land ownership – and the movement to reverse this

  • A man walks by flags picturing the face of Atatürk during a protest.

    The Endless Country by Sami Kent review – After Atatürk

  • The Explorers: shining a light on the diverse men and women forgotten by history

  • At the Edge of Empire by Edward Wong review – changing state

  • Book of the day
    The Kremlin’s Noose by Amy Knight review – vital primer on Putin’s Russia and Boris Berezovsky’s death

  • On the Shadow Tracks by Clare Hammond review – a train to Myanmar’s dark heart

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