The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

Taylor's Law states: 'The Foreign Office knows no secrets.'

I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, 'What happened n…

History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is temp…