‘We had the same pain’
Most people know about the millions of Jews murdered in Hitler's death camps; less is known about the 500,000 Gypsies who also died. Walter Winter is determined that this must change.
Biographer takes shine off Spielberg’s Schindler
According to history professor David Crowe's new biography of the German industrialist, Schindler's list, the legendary document containing names of Jewish employees at his Polish factory who were designated as "essential workers" and thus spared from the concentration camps, did not exist.
‘Just call me Nell’
After a lifetime fighting for women's rights, Nell McCafferty's memoirs have revealed a Sapphic soap opera that has transfixed Ireland. Angelique Chrisafis meets her.
80 million pieces of paper, two million photos, 79,000 objects – and not a blue dress in sight
Let's get this out of the way: there is no sign of Monica Lewinsky's blue dress in Bill Clinton's personal monument to his immortality, a cantilevered span of steel and glass that seems to float above the Arkansas river and which will house the physical remains of his presidency.
True crime
Fred Vargas is a highly successful French crime writer, but since she declared her support for an Italian author faced with extradition, her calls are monitored and she is followed by the intelligence services. She tells Jon Henley how life came to imitate art.
Inspiration leaves Mann’s mountain
Alpine sanatorium that provided backdrop for classic novel falls victim to economic slowdown.
Man of terror
Robert Service finds huge talents as well as monstrous failings in the complex figure of Josef Stalin, says Angus MacQueen.
The rubble of the Raj
Edwin Lutyens' architecture was the first to successfully fuse east and west. Is India really about to bulldoze his work?
Evolution textbooks row goes to court
A suburban American school board found itself in court yesterday after it tried to placate Christian fundamentalist parents by placing a sticker on its science textbooks saying evolution was 'a theory, not a fact'.
From Grange Hill to the valleys
She used to play the school goody-goody on television, but now Amma Asante has made a powerful first film about racism in Wales - without a single black character in it. She talks to Bonnie Greer.
The woman who kept spy secrets of ‘third man’
They were young and idealistic when they met in the turmoil of pre-War Vienna. They both spied for the Russians. Even after they parted she protected Britain's most notorious spy.
Guide shows how to get kicks on route of M6
The book is less a travel guide than a compendium of everything trivial, bizarre and even ludicrous along a highway used by 100,000 vehicles on a typical day.