London has always been famous for its many and beautiful parks”, announced a 1966 guidebook to the capital; “just what those ...

I first went to look at medieval manuscripts in Longleat House in the early 1970s. In those days readers were placed in an ...

A revolutionary who critiqued Marx; a Christian who refused baptism; a Jew who held Jewishness in contempt: Simone Weil was a ...