Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Two and a quarter centuries after he was guillotined on what is now Place de la Concorde in Paris, Maximilien ...
Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Colin Jones, Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London and Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago, to discuss his new book, The Fall of ...
Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr 304pp, Chatto & Windus, £20 As Maximilien Robespierre was taken through the streets of Paris to the guillotine on the morning of July ...