'Foreign-policy pundits, then as now, tended to lack subtlety, even if they could be highly articulate about a nation they did not like very much.'

Read Lucy Wooding's review of Clare Jackson's 'Devil-Land', which has won the @WolfsonHistory prize.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-view-from-across-the-channel

'That they signify something is not in question. Yet how to interpret the symbols of a long-vanished society? What would the inhabitants of the 50th century make of the ubiquity of crosses in Europe?'

Hilary Davies on the art of the Lascaux caves.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/poems-of-the-underground