Dominic Sandbrook

Even by his own standards, Niall Ferguson’s new book makes an extraordinarily grandiose claim. What if, he asks, everything we thought we knew about history was

FOOD BOOK OF THE YEARSalt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking by Samin Nosrat Canongate £30This is an indispensable guide to the whole subj

On February 25, 1969, a group of US Navy Seals landed in the Vietnamese village of Thanh Phong. The community had reportedly been infiltrated by the Vietcong, and Lieutenant Bob Kerrey had been ordered to flush them out. Almost immediately, however, the operation turned into a bloody mess. Lurking s

In the first weeks of 1684, western Europe shivered through the coldest winter in living memory. On January 9, the diarist John Evelyn went down to the Thames in London, where he found the ice so thick that enterprising stallholders had set up “streets of booths, in which they roasted meat”. A coupl

Christina Lamb’s account of rape in modern war, one of the most disturbing books I have read, begins with the story of a Yazidi girl called Naima. Captured by Islamic State soon after she turned 18, Naima was taken to the city of Mosul. There she watched as Isis fighters conducted a grotesque lotter

Viking marauders, assassination in ancient Rome and the terror of the Second World War. It’s comforting to remember that there were worse years to live through

How do you write the history of Brexit when there is so little common ground? How do you avoid playing to the gallery of those who already agree with you? How d

On Tuesday, November 7, 1972, Richard Nixon watched his final election victory alone in the White House. Having carried a crushing 61 per cent of the vote and a

From Yorkshire pudding pizza to “wind and water” spas, the Brits have always been a bit ridiculous on holiday

Tech titans come under attack in a history of the class struggle in California that could have been written by Jeremy Corbyn