The Broken Compass
Mathew LyonsHistory, literature, art & wonder
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Review: Elizabeth I: Queen & Court
If you walk down the stairs at the Philip Mould Gallery on London’s Pall Mall at the moment you will come face to face with one of the most remarkable portraits of Elizabeth I ever painted. It’s a rare full-length depiction of the Tudor que...
The writer's bookshelf: Samira Shackle
Samira Shackle is an award-winning journalist and writer. She is a regular contributor to The Guardian, Prospect, and Al-Jazeera, among other titles. Although based in the UK, she has reported from Pakistan, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Kenya and...
Microhistories #16: the world's first international war crimes trial
The Nuremberg trials that followed the close of World War II were, like the atrocities they prosecuted, unprecedented in international law. And yet the idea that political and military leaders might be held accountable for their actions was...
First sight: Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Sylvia Townsend Warner Society is running a conference this weekend on Lolly Willowes at 100 to mark the centenary of the book’s publication. So it seems timely to share again this piece about its contemporary reception that I wrote las...
The writer's bookshelf: Victoria MacKenzie
Victoria MacKenzie is a fiction writer and essayist based in Scotland. Her debut novel, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain, explored the lives of medieval mystics Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe. It won the Saltire First Bo...
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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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