Keith Houston’s history of emojis reveals that explicit images as well as political provocations, flagrant brand advertisements and other undesirables fall foul of something called the Unicode ...

Some modern scholars believe these to be forgeries written later in antiquity, designed to give the otherwise shadowy figure of Plato (who barely speaks of himself in his works) a richer, more ...

John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers by Jean Strouse; John Singer Sargent: The Charcoal Portraits by Richard Ormond ...

According to the American academic William Kelleher Storey, Rhodes was able to go a long way towards realising his vision because he was so well attuned to the material and social circumstances of his ...

When Churchill declared victory, the young people of the church paraded a full-size effigy of Adolf Hitler to the green and placed it on top of the pyre, whereupon the vicar, my predecessor, conducted ...

Annual global population growth is now just over a third of the peak level reached in the 1960s and the rate is falling fast. The exact point at which the world’s population will start to decline is ...

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My Sister and Other Lovers by Esther Freud ...

A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell, 1912–45 by Michael Haag; The Durrells: The Story of a Family by Richard Bradford ...