A barbecue, a protest … or a good book? We asked some of our leading historians to choose an illuminating Australia Day read.

Rufus Norris's guide to London: pelicans, Dulwich reclamation and mudlarking - The Artistic Director and Chief Executive of ...

In “Embers of the Hands,” historian Eleanor Barraclough digs deep into the ways that the Vikings loved, traveled and even ...

In “Bright Circle,” Randall Fuller shines a light on the women behind — and before — the male philosophers of 19th-century ...

A new book by the British cultural journalist Dorian Lynskey chronicles our centuries-old obsession with doomsday scenarios.