It wasn’t until 1825 that Pepys’s diary became available for the first time. How it was eventually decrypted and published is a story of subterfuge and duplicity. Kate Loveman tells the tale. Arthur ...

In 1843, two years before her death at the age of seventy-two, Cassandra Austen told her brother Charles that she had been ‘looking over & destroying some of my Papers’, but was keeping ‘a few letters ...

With The Real Lolita, Sarah Weinman might be said to have invented a completely new genre: true-crime literary criticism, which is not to be confused with truly criminal literary criticism, which, of ...

Once upon a time, an ambitious ruler concerned about a rising power on the other side of the globe decided to place a puppet king on a nearby throne in a country that was beautiful, rich in natural ...

On an autumn day in 1680, the 50-year-old Charles II charged Samuel Pepys with an unusual task. Over two three-hour sittings, one on a Sunday evening, the next the following Tuesday morning, the king ...

Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. Arthur Christopher Benson was a pillar of the Edwardian establishment. He was supremely well connected. As ...

The days when LSD made headlines as ‘The Most Dangerous Thing Since the Atom Bomb’ are long gone; now we’re in a ‘Psychedelic Renaissance’, with Prince Harry drinking ayahuasca tea and Mike Tyson ...

Of the siblings Gwen and Augustus John, it is Augustus who has commanded most attention from collectors and connoisseurs. Was he really the finer artist, asks Tanya Harrod, or is it time Gwen emerged ...

Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. Of the siblings Gwen and Augustus John, it is Augustus who has commanded most attention from collectors and ...

Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. Of the siblings Gwen and Augustus John, it is Augustus who has commanded most attention from collectors and ...

Of the siblings Gwen and Augustus John, it is Augustus who has commanded most attention from collectors and connoisseurs. Was he really the finer artist, asks Tanya Harrod, or is it time Gwen emerged ...

Of the siblings Gwen and Augustus John, it is Augustus who has commanded most attention from collectors and connoisseurs. Was he really the finer artist, asks Tanya Harrod, or is it time Gwen emerged ...