Louise Heren

There’s no need for a spoiler alert with any history book exploring the life and reign of Henry VIII, arguably Britain’s most famous, possibly notorious, sovereign. Born in 1491, second surviving son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York - the former an accomplished military leader, the la

Can the biography of a woman who did not exist, yet is so well known in Western culture, ever be written?  Edith Hall’s latest work on the classical world has taken her an academic career of immersion in the Greek classics, of getting to ‘know’ Medea every time they have met.

During his long summer holidays in 1934, staying with a school friend’s family in Ireland, historian and author Richard Cobb remarked on what, to him, seemed like a peculiar practice: tram passengers discreetly crossing themselves every time the tram passed a church or roadside shrine, which a

Natalie Livingstone’s vivid retelling of the Nuremberg trials shifts the focus from the Nazi defendants to the remarkable women who witnessed, interpreted, chronicled and shaped the proceedings, revealing how their experiences illuminated the moral, political and human legacy of the twentieth

Louise Heren reviews a new book on the headline-grabbing trial of Gayle Newland.