Robert Winder

In recent years the modern world has developed a brave new concept: 'soft power'. It is the power of friendly persuasion rather than command, and…

It is often assumed that the national identity must be a matter of values and ideas. But in Robert Winder's brilliantly-written account it is a…

The story of the way Britain has been settled and influenced by foreign people and ideas is as old as the land itself. In this…

The Open Championship has been a high point of the British sporting calendar for 150 years, but few have been so memorable as in 2009.…

In the spring of 1613 Mr William Shakespeare, a gentleman farmer in Warwickshire, returns to London. It is a ceremonial visit; he has no further…