Ethnocentrism, or cultural ignorance, means thinking one’s own culture is superior to another, or the right way to live. This has been a feature of colonialism ever since the days of the Raj and probably long before. When the first colonisers set foot on the shores of...

The history of the Czech Republic is marked by the stains of the ‘Human Condition’, and the significance of both the history and the phrase have influenced Czech poet Vítezslav Nezval’s collection of poems, ‘Woman in the Plural’, first written during the inter-war...

Author Louise Fein writes …the inspiration behind Daughter of the Reich was my father, who came to England as a refugee from Nazi Germany in 1933. He grew up in Leipzig, where the book is set, and although the story itself is fictional, all the events and incidences...

There have been numerous books written about the Second World War, and many of them are excellent. What makes this one different, however, is the way it blows apart some of the myths we have come to accept as facts, such as Chamberlain’s appeasement of Hitler and...

In the middle of the eighteenth century, a group of ‘wild children’ was discovered roaming the woodlands of Europe (and by wild I mean not Ibiza party wild, which would barely raise an eyebrow, but ‘savagely’ wild in the Tarzan sense). The discovery fuelled a debate...

Democratic politics,’ says Author David Runciman “has become an elaborate show. Mature, Western democracy is over the hill”. Mr Runciman is Professor of Politics at Cambridge and so he must be right. It is in fact hard to read this book without being persuaded that we...