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  • Tuesday, 28 June, 2022
    OutlookJude Webber
    Ireland’s virtual archive shows cultural memory can be saved

    Historical treasures are often destroyed in conflict but a crusade has recreated Dublin’s records office

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  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    Summer Books 2022
    Best summer books of 2022: History

    Tony Barber selects his best mid-year reads

  • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
    The best books of the week
    Ireland’s unforgotten fires — the attacks that changed history

    A century on from the outbreak of civil war, two books examine very different stories of the Anglo-Irish gentry

  • Tuesday, 14 June, 2022
    The best books of the week
    The Empress and the English Doctor — Catherine the Great and the fight against smallpox

    Lucy Ward takes a timely and entertaining look at the Russian sovereign’s pioneering stance on inoculation

  • Monday, 6 June, 2022
    Review
    The Siege of Loyalty House by Jessie Childs — a most uncivil war

    This close-focus history echoes to the sound of the snapping of bonds that once tied kinsfolk and comrades

  • Monday, 30 May, 2022
    Review
    False Prophets by Nigel Ashton — meddling in the Middle East

    This readable narrative of British prime ministers’ actions in the region reveals the clash between ideals and realpolitik

  • Friday, 27 May, 2022
    Review
    Northerners — the places, the people and the roots of Brexit

    Brian Groom enjoyably surveys the history of the north, from rebellion and radicalism to the fall of the red wall

  • Tuesday, 24 May, 2022
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    Russia: Revolution and Civil War by Antony Beevor

    The military historian’s account of the Bolsheviks’ rise and the ensuing turmoil spares no sensitivities

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Geography Is Destiny by Ian Morris — Brexit’s deep historical roots

    A persuasive study dusts off the maps in going back millennia to unravel Britain’s relationship with Europe

  • Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
    Review
    In the Shadow of the Gods — when emperors claimed a divine right to rule

    Dominic Lieven takes in empires from Mughal to British and asks: what made them the dominant form of government for centuries?

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    ObituaryLeonid Kravchuk
    Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician, 1934-2022

    Ukraine’s first democratically elected president, who liberated his country from Soviet dominion

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    ReviewEconomics books
    The Chancellors — is the Treasury fit for purpose?

    An economist’s primer on the UK Treasury over the past 25 years highlights how the office has struggled to change with the times

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Review
    Nine Quarters of Jerusalem — a cycle of destruction and reconstruction

    Matthew Teller’s history disputes simplistic division of the Old City into four areas — and laments present-day tensions

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    The Weekend Essay
    Simon Schama: when history is weaponised for war

    As Putin appeals to the distant past to justify his invasion of Ukraine, militant nostalgia is on the march around the world

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Alice’s Book by Karina Urbach — the recipes stolen by the Nazis

    A moving account of the 80-year quest to restore a Jewish writer’s name to a bestselling Viennese cooking guide

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Shadowlands — a 5,000-year journey through Britain’s lost settlements

    Matthew Green’s time-trip through vanished towns and cities offers an urgent reminder of what may lie ahead

  • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order — an instant classic

    Gary Gerstle’s economic history is essential reading for learning how we arrived at a reckoning with capitalism

  • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    Dinner with Joseph Johnson — portrait of a revolutionary bookseller

    Daisy Hay brings to vivid life the publisher who befriended some of the 18th century’s most radical figures

  • Wednesday, 6 April, 2022
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    Visions of France: land, liberté and literary salons

    As the French elect their president, Graham Robb and Peter Watson offer contrasting views of what shapes the national narrative

  • Tuesday, 29 March, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Horizons — a radical retelling of the history of science

    James Poskett challenges the traditional Eurocentric narrative and highlights vital contributions from across the globe

  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
    Vasily Grossman
    Soviet writer Vasily Grossman and the ‘ruthless truth’ of war

    The clear-eyed chronicler of the darkest days of 20th-century history is startlingly relevant for the war in Ukraine

  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
    War in Ukraine: free to read
    Russia, Ukraine and Europe’s 200-year quest for peace

    Generations of leaders have wrestled over a lasting settlement in Europe. What can today’s negotiators learn from centuries of statecraft?

  • Thursday, 17 March, 2022
    FT Books Essay
    Legacy of Violence — the bloody ends of empire

    Pulitzer-winning Caroline Elkins’ deeply researched account seeks to finally dispel the myth of benevolent British imperialism

  • Tuesday, 8 March, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    This Mortal Coil — matters of life, death and longevity

    Andrew Doig’s compelling history of how we die and the scientific advances that arm us against disease

  • Tuesday, 8 March, 2022
    Review
    Oceans of Grain — America, Russia and Ukraine’s breadbasket in flames

    Scott Reynolds Nelson’s history of the global wheat trade is a timely warning of how basic food exports can shape empires

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