Amid growing political unrest in Germany, Albert Einstein paid three short visits to Oxford in the early 1930s. Andrew Robinson reveals why this celebrated physicist travelled to Britain and how ...

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A new history of the British Empire might be expected to concern itself with such issues as the construction of military dictatorship through the imposition of martial law; the violent seizure and ...

FROM the interior of a cavern it is possible in broad daylight, looking up through a fissure at the sky, to see the silvern shining of the stars. From that most enchanting of Gothic caverns, the ...