The Broken Compass
Mathew LyonsHistory, literature, art & wonder
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Inside the Burton Mausoleum
Who would turn down the opportunity to enter a late-Victorian mausoleum – never mind one that holds the remains of such a storied man as the writer and explorer Sir Richard Burton? Some people perhaps, but not us. We visited on a gorgeous s...
Review: Beowulf: Poem, Poet and Hero by Heather O'Donoghue
Beowulf is a poem steeped in mystery and otherness. It survives in only one manuscript, the Nowell Codex, named for its owner in the 16th century. The manuscript itself was fortunate to survive a fire that engulfed the library that housed i...
The writer's bookshelf: Melissa Harrison
Melissa Harrison is a novelist and nature writer. Her novels include Clay; At Hawthorn Time, which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction; and All Among the Barley, which was the UK winner...
Auden by Peter Ackroyd
The shambling life of England's most commanding twentieth-century poet
Ackroyd on Auden is a tantalising prospect: the biographer of Eliot and Pound – and of England too – on one of England’s most celebrated and more difficult twentieth-ce...
The writer's bookshelf: Anton Howes
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
Anton Howes is a historian of innovation. He received his PhD in Political Economy from King’s College London where he also lectured in Economic History.
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Writer. Historian. FRHistS. Recent work: History Today, The Spectator, Daily Telegraph, Engelsberg Ideas, Slightly Foxed, Literary Review.
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