They see themselves as resurrecting the barricades of 1968, and reclaim ‘La Marseillaise’ when they march. If one of the ...

There are currently almost 25,000 specialist riot police in France, including 11,000 full-time CRS officers. The Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité were on duty on the night of 17 October 1961, as ...

Pablo Scheffer joins Tom to explore the transition from Roman to British to Anglo-Saxon England between the sixth and eighth centuries. They discuss why none of the changes that took place was ...

It can be hard​ to imagine a world in which people justified slavery, yet for most of recorded history enslavement ...

In 2018, Penguin published Giorgio Bassani’s six-part cycle The Novel of Ferrara, translated by Jamie McKendrick, as a single volume. A regular customer at the bookshop where I work recently showed me ...

At the first interval in the Berlin Staatsoper’s new production of La Vestale, the man to my right turned to me ...

Fredric Jameson seemed to me to have read absolutely everything. He was the very antithesis of the intellectual type ...

Thirty years ago,​ well before the advent of Google Street View, I heard about a philosopher invited as a visiting professor ...

Among​ John Clare’s drawings of ‘pootys’ (snail shells) and birds is a doodle of his imagined tombstone. It bears the inscription: ‘HERE Rest the HOPES and Ashes of JOHN CLARE.’ The masons missed the ...

I n ​ 1963 Shelagh Delaney published a story based on the hate mail and begging letters she received when A Taste of Honey ...