Freemasonry
The short, eventful life of George Forster – explorer, naturalist and revolutionary
By the time he died, aged 39, the German-Polish polymath had travelled the world, mastered ten languages, witnessed the French Revolution and campaigned tirelessly for human rights
In defence of the Freemasons
It’s a personal delight that on 29 September 1829, the first day of Robert Peel’s new force, the first warrant…
The diminutive dictator who ruled Spain with an iron fist
Fifty years after Franco’s death, Giles Tremlett assesses the generalisimo’s bloodstained legacy
Jack the Ripper unmasked again
The Whitechapel Fiend is a psychic conduit for the vilest aspects of Victorian sex and class, and a creature mainly…
