From Shy Di to international icon: how ballet lessons transformed Princess Diana
The choreographer Anne Allan not only indulged the princess’s love of dance in weekly one-to-one sessions but also became her longstanding confidante
The horrors of the Eastern Front
Nick Lloyd reinforces Churchill’s sentiment that the first world war in the East was ‘one of the most frightful misfortunes to befall mankind’
Dukes of hazard
Whether it was from hurt, spite or genuine fascist sympathies, his surprise at his family’s response simply confirms his stupidity
Britain’s inglorious war
Despite prostrate Germany’s need for the return of its men, in Britain we didn’t release our prisoners of war until…
Dracula was only the start
The title of the journalist Paul Kenyon’s second book on crazy leadership, Children of the Night, leaves the reader in…