Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835 in Florida, Missouri, and moved, at the age of four, to nearby Hannibal on the banks of the Mississippi. His father was a taciturn justice of the peace ...

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Frances Villiers, Lady Purbeck, was exactly the kind of woman who worried Charles I. Despite her credentials – aristocratic birth, inherited wealth, an excellent marriage to one of his favoured ...

Ian Kershaw enters a crowded field with To Hell and Back, the first instalment of a two-volume history of Europe’s horrendous 20th century. Anyone interested in the period already has a formidable ...