What did the Romans ever do for London?
When Bishop Guy of Amiens looked across the Channel in the 11th century he saw ‘teeming London [which] shines bright.…
For some soldiers, the VC was easier to win than to wear
‘The Victoria Cross,’ gushed a mid-19th-century contributor to the Art Journal, ‘is thoroughly English in every particular. Given alike to…
Maxwell Knight — a great spymaster and an honourable man
I once asked Baroness Manningham-Buller, the former head of MI5, what she did to relax. Nailing me to the wall…
The map-maker’s task may never be done
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Equipped for life with a copy of Thucydides
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The realm of England: from the Pennines to the Pyrenees
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