Fine and dandy

Slippers have made their way out of the bedroom and into the street, finds Simon Mills–although not without precedent or formalities

Hannah Betts prefers parading pelts to donning dun uniforms

Literature and Learning: A History of English Studies ...

Over a long career, John Hardman has specialised to great effect in teasing out, from speeches, decrees, minutes, memoranda, letters, diaries and unsent drafts, the varied moods of French political de

The English House: A History in Eight Buildings ...

There’s more than a whiff of swing in the air–and on the airwaves. Will Hosie explores the resurrection of one of music’s most gentlemanly genres