Discover the complexity of London in the English Civil War through the lives of two friends with opposing political beliefs. Minoo Dinshaw explores how the events of the English Civil War impacted ...

Annie Proulx wrote, in The Shipping News: "You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music". In this series of Radio 3's The Essay authors meditate on a piece of music ...

Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman. By Minoo Dinshaw. Allen Lane; 767 pages; £30. BY THE time he died, in 2000 at the age of 97, Sir Steven ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Had Steven Runciman not actually lived, someone, perhaps Evelyn Waugh, would have invented him. Byzantine historian, ...

An immense biography of a brilliant historian from the golden age of scholarship An “alarmingly literate child” by the age of eight, the brilliant Byzantinist Steven Runciman discovered his love of ...

Noel Malcolm on Minoo Dinshaw’s Outlandish Knight, a life of an untypical historian, Steven Runciman. By Noel Malcolm In the mid-1970s, when Steven Runciman was in his own eighth decade, he became a ...

Author Minoo Dinshaw is drawn to Mendelssohn’s ‘Scottish’ Third Symphony. Tuning in to its emotional landscape, he questions the piece’s – and his own – identity. Show more Annie Proulx wrote, in The ...