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    • Friday, 2 June, 2023
      The best books of the week
      One Fine Day by Ian Marchant — meet the ancestor

      The author finds that a relative’s 18th-century diary offers a window to the past and a context for his own life

    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      Review
      Spain’s century: from dictatorship to modern European democracy

      Two books by leading historians do a fine job in charting the path from fanaticism and violence to national reconciliation

    • Friday, 12 May, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Knowing What We Know — one mind’s account of how we store information

      Simon Winchester takes a lively, digressive look at how humans have ordered and passed on knowledge over time

    • Thursday, 11 May, 2023
      Review
      The Russo-Ukrainian War — turning points

      Serhii Plokhy offers a compelling rejoinder to those who blame Putin’s war on western provocations

    • Tuesday, 2 May, 2023
      Review
      Birchers — cabals, conspiracies and the group that paved the way for Trump

      Matthew Dallek’s fine new history looks at the 1950s conspiracy movement that radicalised America’s Republican party

    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
      Interview
      Katja Hoyer: we need to hear ‘the whole story’ about East Germany

      Born in the GDR, the author argues in her new book for a ‘but’ in the history of the reviled former Communist state

    • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Why do we like to be beside the seaside?

      Two books take a tour of the glorious past and uncertain future of Britain’s coastal resorts

    • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
      ReviewFiction
      An Honourable Exit — a scathing exposé of colonial abuses in French Indochina

      Éric Vuillard writes another historically acute account of big business and political elites at play

    • Tuesday, 25 April, 2023
      Review
      Revolutionary Spring — how 1848 shaped the modern world

      The uprisings of that year have had a greater impact on European politics and society than we think, argues Christopher Clark

    • Friday, 14 April, 2023
      Review
      Culture: A New World History — the case for cross-fertilisation over ownership

      Little that we know is truly original or without influences, argues Martin Puchner in a survey of discovery, borrowing and revival

    • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
      ReviewScience books
      Pathogenesis — a history of microbes and men

      Jonathan Kennedy argues that germs have shaped our world more than humankind has — and it’s time we took notice

    • Thursday, 6 April, 2023
      Review
      The Soviet Century — the path to Putin’s Russia

      In an absorbing book curated like a museum, Karl Schlögel immerses readers in fascinating details of life in the USSR

    • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
      Review
      Sacred Foundations: how the medieval church made modern Europe

      Anna Grzymała-Busse’s fine book argues that the religious powers of the Middle Ages were fundamental in forging today’s secular institutions

    • Monday, 3 April, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      A Brilliant Commodity — shining a light on the Jewish diamond connection

      A flawed history of the tricontinental diamond trade focuses on Amsterdam’s Jodenbuurt

    • Friday, 24 March, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      The Peking Express — a film-like true story of a train hijacking

      The ‘Lincheng incident’ pitted bandits against a wealthy elite — and is recreated in James Zimmerman’s immersive account

    • Wednesday, 8 March, 2023
      Review
      The Collaborators — case studies in survival and betrayal

      Ian Buruma profiles three figures whose wartime actions remained mired in accusations of treachery — and delusion

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      Review
      The Other Renaissance — the northern age of discovery

      Paul Strathern’s lively portraits prove that Italy was not the only part of Europe shaping the modern world

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      The Weekend Essay
      Apocalypse then: lessons from history in tackling climate shocks

      What can we learn from studying thousands of years of humanity’s response to natural disasters?

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      A difficult reckoning with Ukraine’s wartime history

      Two new books explore aspects of Ukraine’s troubled 20th-century history

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival
      The Earth Transformed — an epic survey of our interaction with the environment

      By foregrounding humanity’s impact on nature and climate, Peter Frankopan reframes what matters most in the history of our planet

    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      Voyager — the memory of Pinochet’s victims, written in the stars

      In her extraordinary memoir, Chilean writer Nona Fernández combines astronomy and neuroscience with a refusal to forget

    • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      The 1600s: England’s century of bloodshed and revolution

      With conflict over Ireland, Scotland and Europe, monarchy and governance, the 17th century had uneasy parallels with today

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Wise Gals by Nathalia Holt — the female spies who came in from the cold

      Rich with detail, this gripping book charts the extraordinary bravery and professional barriers faced by women working in intelligence

    • Wednesday, 8 February, 2023
      Tony Barber
      De Gaulle grandson veers off the statesman’s track

      History contains some notable examples of progeny with more extreme politics than their parents or grandparents

    • Wednesday, 8 February, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Pirate Enlightenment by David Graeber — sea battles and radical social experiments

      A case for swashbucklers in Madagascar first discovering the ideals of reason, liberty and toleration

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