Margaret Drabble

Articles by Margaret Drabble

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True stories. Have you ever wondered who the Franks were, or failed to distinguish the Habsburgs from the Hohenzollerns? A children's book written 70 years ago answers these and many other questions. Margaret Drabble takes a charming tour through the past

  • 26 September 2005

A Little History of the World E H Gombrich; translated by Caroline Mustill Yale University Press, 304pp, £14.99 ISBN 0300108834

Diary - Margaret Drabble

  • 08 August 2005

Somebody - I think it was a naughty boy - threw an egg at me. "Good shot!" I cried, in cowardly appeasement, and then booked my ticket out of town

The backward look

  • 16 May 2005

The Power of Delight: a lifetime in literature - essays, 1962-2002 John Bayley; selected by Leo Carey Duckworth, 677pp, £25 ISBN 0715633120

A floating world

  • 01 March 2004

Prunella Clough relished the strange and ephemeral, preferring wastelands and industrial imagery to conventionally pretty landscapes. Margaret Drabble looks back at one of art's more elusive figures

Upstairs, downstairs

  • 25 August 2003

The Victorian House Judith Flanders HarperCollins, 476pp, £20 ISBN 0007131887

Melancholy undercurrents

  • 14 July 2003

Paradise of Cities: Venice and its 19th-century visitors John Julius Norwich Viking, 283pp, £20 ISBN 067089401X

More sound than sense

  • 05 May 2003

Power and Glory: Jacobean England and the making of the King James Bible Adam Nicolson HarperCollins, 280pp, £18.99 ISBN 0007108931

On the bus, you hear someone say into his mobile phone: "We're not moving . . . it's a hostage situation"

  • 08 January 2001

A witch-hunt?

A witch-hunt against the Sun?

Osborne's woes

Osborne hoisted with his own petard

Marr's monarchism

Enough of this royal deference

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?
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