An Infernal Spark: Drink, Addiction and Disease Addiction is a familiar feature of contemporary society. Not only...
Darkness Audible: Benjamin Britten at 100 - Late, 1971-1976 ‘In the history of art late works are the catastrophes,’...
Darkness Audible: Benjamin Britten at 100 - Middle, 1945-1970 The success of Peter Grimes caught Britten by surprise. It...
A Haberdashery Shop on London Bridge: Journal of a Georgian Gentleman The fascinating story of eighteenth century haberdasher who recorded what...
Darkness Audible: Benjamin Britten at 100 - Early, 1913-1945 On the day Penguin publishes Benjamin Britten: A Life in...
Forwards and Backwards: Architecture in inter-war England The First World War brought far reaching changes to England...
The Economics of the Very Long Run: From Fire to Finance in Two Million Years An economist's view of two million years of human history...
Blue Funk and Yellow Peril ‘Asiatic cholera’, which arrived in Europe in the early nineteenth century...