Ruth Scurr

Ruth Scurr teaches history and politics at Cambridge University. She is the author of Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution.

A Dash for It: On Lisa Cohen

A Dash for It: On Lisa Cohen A Dash for It: On Lisa Cohen

The unconventional story of three women and their unconventional lives in the early twentieth century.

Dec 5, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Ruth Scurr

To Curse and Fume To Curse and Fume

As our own yellow press goes from strength to strength, what can the history of slander and libel teach us?

Apr 16, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ruth Scurr

Stolen Youth: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin Stolen Youth: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin

The French Revolution as seen from Versailles.

Jul 29, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Ruth Scurr

Bloodstained Ghosts: The Children of Revolutionary France Bloodstained Ghosts: The Children of Revolutionary France

Robert Gildea examines France between the revolution and World War I.

Nov 6, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Ruth Scurr

Searching for Traces Searching for Traces

There was little enthusiasm for revisiting the camps in Communist Hungary. Author Imre Kertész refracts that reluctance in fictional form.

May 22, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Ruth Scurr

Terra Incognita Terra Incognita

A mosaic of anecdotes and historical snapshots surveys the sociological diversity of France, past and present.

Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Ruth Scurr

Savage Wars of Peace Savage Wars of Peace

Ruth Scurr reviews The First Total War, a study of Napoleonic France that illuminates the causes of all-out war.

Jan 18, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Ruth Scurr

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