A contribution to Yale University Press’s Jewish Lives series, The Many Lives of Anne Frank is part biography, part history ...

The world of honey is far richer and more varied than the pallid jars sold in supermarkets would suggest. There’s black honey ...

A marvellous photograph in the middle of Simon Goldhill’s spry Queer Cambridge: An alternative history shows the ...

At Adam’s funeral, Eve remembers how frightened he was on leaving Paradise and catching flu. But in old age, he had confided ...

The North Pole is the point at the top of our planet where the Earth’s axis of rotation meets the surface. It is not a place.

Philip Marsden has made his home in Cornwall, an improbable hotspot for mineral wealth. “In the early nineteenth century, ...

It’s Alan Sked, not Brian Holden Reid, who’s “quite wrong” about the causes of the American Civil War (Letters, March 14). Abraham Lincoln did win only a plurality in a four-way race, but as we were ...

‘Spring with its thrusting leaves and jargling birds is here again / to remind me again of the first real Event’ - W. H. Auden ...

‘Winter was a white page / soon to be ripped / from the calendar / says the rippling script / of Canada geese’ – Jon Stallworthy ...