‘We have never moved beyond the idea that a house is at the grace and favour of a landlord’

The right stuffed: timely Anti-Nazi League history offers an essential lesson

The Alienation Effect

Lost Warriors: Seagrim and Pagani of Burma

Streets of Primrose Hill & Regent’s Park

‘They go from woman to woman and you wonder, wouldn’t it be easier for them to just get a job?’

High-speed? More a slow train to nowhere

A people’s champion: Henry Sharpe’s donkey war

Travels in a demi monde

Vis à vis Vic: the man whose work inspired Les Mis

‘I’m looking for books that capture a nation’s spirit and reveal something of its soul’

‘I’m not popular in Japan, so I’m surprised to be in a bookshop in London’

Twain spotting: ’The Lincoln of our literature’ in London

‘It takes a particular skill to be in the middle of a riot and take a good picture’

Still lives: the rapid rise of female statues in London

Pomp it up: How ‘Britannia’s butler’ epitomised English aristocratic grandeur at the height of the Empire

Gone fission: the scientists with their heads in the (mushroom) clouds

‘If you had a gun you were seen as more left-wing’

Review: Looking After – A Portrait of My Autistic Brother

One man’s beetlemania