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In a toothsome history, Pen Vogler tells a fascinating story about how politics and culture shaped our relationship with food
Daniel Schulman’s richly detailed chronicle is a timely corrective to historical distortions that have helped feed antisemitism
Memoirs of the socialites and swells of an earlier era offer perfect festive reading — without today’s celebrity spin
‘Fire Weather’ named winner of UK’s leading award for non-fiction at ceremony in London
Tony Barber selects his must-read titles
Robert Darnton digs deep into 18th-century France to find the roots of the political unrest that culminated in 1789
England’s legal framework has been bolted together over centuries, and not always in the most efficient way
History book disappears from shops and online searches are blocked as Beijing strengthens control of information flows
Alice Albinia tours the British Isles in search of eccentrics, radicals and rebels
Joachim C Häberlen takes a microscopic look at protest movements on the continent, from strikers and students to radicals and racists
Michael Peppiatt chronicles the sculptor’s life with a blend of pungent atmosphere and sentimentality
A gripping story of the events that led to the creation of Germany’s capital city
FT specialists recommend the most insightful reads on an issue with roots deep in the early 20th century
Between London smog and the advent of The Beatles, the latest volume in a magisterial series on post-war Britain reveals a nation poised for change
Autocracy is something today’s democracies thought they had left behind, but two books — one focused on antiquity, the other on modern history — shed light on how it is enabled
Crisis bred crisis in the Weimar Republic. On the centenary of the turbulent period, two books offer a reminder of the vigilance required to sustain democracy
Robert Gildea’s oral history gives voice to the communities left scarred by the often violent industrial dispute of 1984-85
An enthralling account with contemporary resonance examines how Israel regained the initiative in 1973’s Yom Kippur war
Sarah Ogilvie brings to life the unexpected characters — from murderers and a vicar to Karl Marx’s daughter — who were its early contributors
Two books look at the capital’s outsized influence on western liberalism and the nation’s loudening drumbeat of far-right politics
Calder Walton’s engrossing history of a century of rival spookery offers lessons for the present
A lively and provocative new study explores the powerful forces influencing the region in a disorderly, multipolar world
In two piercing accounts, Sergei Medvedev and Jade McGlynn expose the manipulation of history used to justify Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Hans Kundnani offers a stinging critique of the EU as a bloc rooted in ‘imperial amnesia’
Unseen boundaries are the ones with the most life-changing consequences, argues Maxim Samson’s illuminating collection of case studies
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