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    • Friday, 10 December, 2021
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      Making Darkness Light — a seductive imagining of the life of Milton

      Filled with vivid vignettes and personal explorations, this is far from a conventional biography

    • Thursday, 1 October, 2020
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      Tom Stoppard by Hermione Lee — the real thing

      This authorised biography is a flattering but essential portrait of one of the great playwrights of our age

    • Friday, 21 February, 2020
      Life & Arts
      How Hilary Mantel’s Tudor anti-hero redefined historical fiction

      The Booker-winning author of the Wolf Hall trilogy has made Thomas Cromwell into a character for our age

    • Friday, 18 October, 2019
      ReviewHistory books
      The Brothers York — bloodletting behind a veneer of chivalry

      War and brutality belie the myth of a ‘new Camelot’ in Thomas Penn’s saga of royal rivalries

    • Thursday, 14 February, 2019
      ReviewHistory books
      The Voices of Nîmes by Suzannah Lipscomb — speaking truth to power

      A new history of Reformation Languedoc casts light on the lives of ordinary women

    • Saturday, 19 January, 2019
      Feminism
      Mary Queen of Scots is a bad lesson in good feminism

      A Tudor-Stuart saga obscures lessons about women’s agency and power

    • Friday, 7 December, 2018
      ReviewArts books
      Francis by Ann Wroe — the rhythms of the saint

      A series of poems on the life of St Francis of Assisi is scarce on facts but rich in imagination

    • Thursday, 13 September, 2018
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Thomas Cromwell: the man who made modern England

      A new biography promises to change our understanding of Tudor politics

    • Friday, 6 April, 2018
      Life & Arts
      Hungary, anti-Semitism and my lost Jewish ancestors

      Ahead of Sunday’s elections in Hungary, Kate Maltby visits her grandmother’s homeland

    • Monday, 30 October, 2017
      Religion
      What did Luther ever do for us? Not as much as we like to think

      We should not pretend cultural reforms were ever ushered forth at the speed of a tweet

    • Saturday, 21 October, 2017
      Media
      Tudor surveillance state has 21st-century echoes

      The first Elizabethans also lived in a time of cultural conflict and upheaval

    • Saturday, 7 October, 2017
      Gender politics
      The tangled politics of transgenderism

      Biological women still have experiences that define them as a group

    • Friday, 14 July, 2017
      Life & Arts
      The ‘Game of Thrones’ version of history

      George RR Martin’s fantasy world has its roots in medievalism — but how authentic are its Middle Ages?

    • Friday, 16 June, 2017
      Life & Arts
      Character assassination? The theatre takes on Trump

      A play depicting Julius Caesar as Donald Trump has lost sponsors and enraged the president’s supporters

    • Saturday, 27 May, 2017
      Terrorism in UK
      Manchester’s tears are in a long tradition of public mourning

      Since Tudor times, civic grief has assisted with civic healing and should not be mocked

    • Saturday, 20 May, 2017
      Oil
      Protests push much-needed philanthropy away from the arts

      Government cuts have continued unrelentingly over the past seven years

    • Saturday, 13 May, 2017
      Television
      Dramas like ‘Jamestown’ do us and history a disservice

      Feminist historians are right to question the depiction of women as long-suffering

    • Saturday, 6 May, 2017
      Television
      Row over BBC royal play ignores its subtle message

      The portrayal of King Charles III is both topical and sensitive

    • Saturday, 29 April, 2017
      Life & Arts
      In the arts, just as in politics, turf war harms us all

      A battle over an ousted theatre director has parallels with the election campaign

    • Friday, 14 April, 2017
      Religion
      John Donne nourishes the soul at Eastertime

      The devotional poems set believers and non-believers alight

    • Saturday, 8 April, 2017
      Gender politics
      Wanted: plinths for remarkable women

      One political heroine is getting a statue near parliament, but we need many more

    • Saturday, 1 April, 2017
      French politics
      Marine Le Pen’s elite guard look to a bloody past

      Their classical allusions, however obscure, still mask a modern bite

    • Saturday, 25 March, 2017
      FT PodcastMedia
      Podcasts are a private pleasure in public places

      The decline of the radio schedule heralds the death of the collective cultural moment

    • Saturday, 18 March, 2017
      Brexit
      Truth is too strange for the stage

      Notebook: Uncertainty of current events makes political theatre oddly less relevant

    • Friday, 24 February, 2017
      US politics & policy
      US Republicans indulge Milo Yiannopoulos, their court jester

      The fall and rise of a breakout online star

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