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The Aspects of History Newsletter: An ‘Anthony Powell Existence’ – 23rd September 2026
Lexington Street (Source: Paul the Archivist)
From The Editor
It’s open season on books. Launches, dinners, releases here, there and everywhere – so many hours in the day to get magazine stuff vaguely in order before the fun begins, t...
Deep into the Sixties: Britain 1965–66 with David Kynaston
The Sixties are often remembered as a decade of sweeping social and cultural change. But how much really changed for ordinary people? From deindustrialisation and urban redevelopment to immigration, race relations and the shifting attitudes...
Empress Matilda: A Complex Character, by Elisabeth van Houts
Her determination was sometimes mistaken for arrogance, but Matilda’s judgement ended up securing the English crown for her son, Henry II, and laid the foundations for the Plantagenet dynasty
In my new biography of Empress Matilda, I have...
Empire at the Edge of the World with Giles Milton
In the early 20th century, the Arctic remained one of the last great unexplored regions of the world. When the celebrity explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson sets out to chart its unknown territory, the expedition’s flagship, the Karluk, becomes...
The Aspects of History Newsletter: Pasts Unknown – 16th September 2026
A scene in Carnaby Street, in London’s West End, c. 1966
From The Editor
I pose a question… can you be nostalgic about an era or an event you never witnessed?
Whether or not there can possibly be an answer to that question – as ever...
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