Alexander Watson wins Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize
Ring Of Steel awarded best book in the field of military history
Suffragettes Forever! The Story of Women and Power
Amanda Vickery on the history of British women’s battle against the patriarchy and the long journey ahead
Mad Men and Bad Men
Sam Delaney On What Happened When British Politics Met Advertising
The Blue Whale in all its majesty
Philip Hoare celebrates Dippy’s usurpation in the Telegraph
A Political Romance
Daisy Hay’s essay on how the marriage of Benjamin and Mary Anne Disraeli broke every rule in the book
Queen Victoria’s Letters
A Monarch Unveiled in a two part production for BBC4
Sex and Drugs and the First World War
For the centenary, Philip Hoare looks at the decadent side of the Great War