PROUST’S FAMOUS NOVEL IS CALLED IN SEARCH of Lost Time, and isn’t that the key to why we love history? It’s the urge to recover the lost past. Can we get beyond the mysterious veil to real events and

A flawed comparative study of eastern and western philosophies

Why do we like what we like?

GH ’s Simon Swift considers what future generations might make of our decisions about what to keep and what to let go of

A composer’s idiosyncratic guide to western classical music

Founded 1836 The Reform Club (1838–41) is the final word in the extraordinary triptych of clubs on this stretch of Pall Mall begun with The Athenæum (1827–30) and continued with The Travellers (1829–3