Lent has a single focus and makes singular demands. Three books explore this focus and offer resources to meet the claims the ...

The Shetland WayMARIANNE BROWN(THE BOROUGH PRESS, 336 PP, £16.99)tablet bookshop price £15.29 • tel 020 7799 4064 ...

Rees has spent much of his career immersed in the unique horror of the Holocaust and it shows here in his deep knowledge and ...

The Vatican said Pope Francis was “stable” in hospital on Wednesday, following alarm at his diagnosis of double pneumonia the ...

Socrates’ ­frugal life, cheerful death and non-stop philosophising continue to fascinate and stimu­late scholars and ...

Van Gogh: A Ward in the Hospital at Arles (1889) The hospital paintings currently on show in London were collected by Oskar ...

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Mary Queen of Scots couldn’t justify an elaborate staging, but director-designer Stewart Laing’s solution is baffling.

On the Orkney island of Hoy (the “high island” in Norse), up on a wind-blasted moor, lies the grave of Betty Corrigall. A ...

Never mind that Russia attacked Ukraine in clear breach of every principle of ethics and law. There is a deal to be done, ...

For “sound business sense”, read “tax write-offs”. Cautious when the scheme was first proposed to them by a wily Texan ...

As I talk with Kateryna, it becomes clear that the psychological impact of the three years of continuous war has been just as ...