How did the world—and Denis Law—respond to England's historic World Cup victory?

Nero competed in the four-horse chariot race using a 10-horse chariot; Trump also allegedly "cheats like hell"

Diary extracts, and letters, show that the fear of Russian influence is nothing new

Extracts from Virginia Woolf to Guillaume Apollinaire

As these diaries show, women in film and politics have long been wise to men's bad behaviour

Accounts from Harold Wilson, Stanley Baldwin and the men who knew them

Among the armfuls of books in my new LGBTQ section, Alan Hollinghurst’s comprised the largest number. And for good reason

“The president was drinking. He said he was resigning.”

Raphael Minder's book shows why the struggle for Catalonian independence is only one of the questions Spain faces

From Samuel Pepys to Denis Howell, extracts from memoirs