HISTORY

If it’s not 1914, it’s 1989. Never mind the Great Man theory of history — we now have a Great Year theory

The V&A museum in London takes readers on a Georgian gilt trip

A round-up of the celebrations for the Georgian tercentenary

After a thousand years, the Vikings are still with us. Why?

John Shakespeare lived in Peking in 1936. Now in his 80s, he has just gone back there for the first time

Sorting through the first-world-war centenary celebrations

In Berlin, victims of the Nazis are being remembered with brass plates, embedded in concrete in the streets where they lived

Caroline Moorehead goes back to the summer of 1940 and the untold story of one young couple

Robert Butler takes issue with “The Railway Man”