The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes — an imperialist engineer’s riches built on violence
William Kelleher Storey’s biography skirts the statues debate, but is clear-eyed about the magnate’s bitter legacy in southern Africa
William Kelleher Storey’s biography skirts the statues debate, but is clear-eyed about the magnate’s bitter legacy in southern Africa

This Zimbabwean academic’s coming-of-age memoir turns a personal odyssey into a political reckoning of a nation’s cruel history…

John Hume bred 2,000 rhinos in captivity. Were they a cover for one of the most successful horn-trafficking networks in history?

Richard Vinen’s study of two very different but similarly stubborn national figureheads is intriguing, deeply researched and very…

The biographer of Keynes straddled disciplines and political parties in a lengthy and often controversial career

The historian’s splendid account sets out the ideas, inventions and relentless exploitation that drove the nation’s growth from…

John Hume, who bred the world’s largest private herd of rhinoceroses, charged with selling millions of dollars of horns