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The grand old man of nature writing continues his noble crusade

John Jolliffe 19 October 2019 9:00 am

Richard Mabey is the grand old man of nature writing. He has produced 40 books in his noble crusade against…

An ambitious but selective account of all things Victorian and Edwardian

John Jolliffe 16 September 2017 9:00 am

This is a monumental but inevitably selective survey of all that occurred in Britain, for better or worse, in the…

A Special Air Service jeep patrol is greeted by its commander David Stirling on its return from the desert in January 1943

Stirling work with the SAS

John Jolliffe 8 October 2016 9:00 am

The SAS was the first unit to be granted regimental status for generations. Its chief aim was to damage the…

Marlene Dietrich, George Orwell and the rebirth of a nation

John Jolliffe 20 February 2016 9:00 am

The purpose of Lara Feigel’s book is to describe the ‘political mission of reconciliation and restoration’ in the devastated cities…

The second world war — according to Stalin’s ambassador to London

John Jolliffe 12 September 2015 9:00 am

Ivan Maisky was the Russian ambassador in London from 1932 to 1943, and his knowledge of London, and affection for…

The new Imperial Royal Austrian Light Infantry c.1820

The honour of the Habsburgs was all that mattered to the imperial Austrian army

John Jolliffe 20 June 2015 9:00 am

John Keegan, perhaps the greatest British military historian of recent years, felt that the most important book (because of its…

The very model of a modern duke

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Miles Fitzalan-Howard was one of eight children of a fairly distant cousin of the previous two Dukes of Norfolk, and…

Mistress of the royal game

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Marie of Romania (1875–1938), though little known to most readers today, was probably the most dynamic and effective royal consort…

‘The only man in Paris’

John Jolliffe 28 February 2004 12:00 am

Eugenia de Montijo was born in a tent, during an earthquake, in Granada in 1826. Her father, a Liberal minor…

The third man

John Jolliffe 11 January 2003 12:00 am

In the 1840s and 50s, Douglas Jerrold, Dickens and Thackeray were the three best known literary men in England, and…

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