Hoskins’s popularising study The Making of the English Landscape helped a post-war generation realise that the British ...

Eldon Garden shopping centre in Newcastle is now a shell of boarded-up shops. Credit: Alamy On my lunchbreak I often find myself wandering through Eldon Garden, a shopping mall in central Newcastle.

Dagmar Herzog is Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her latest book, Sex in Crisis, has caused a furore in America, where she has been accused of ...

Kerem Oktem is a Research Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford. His book Angry Nation: Turkey since 1989 will be published by Zed Books in 2009.

Meet George Leo Lucas. At the turn of the 1970s, he is a middle-aged civil servant in London, working for the Board of Trade, ...

Ihsan Abdel Kouddous's classic novel - published in English for the first time - shines a light on politics and power in ...