From the archive, 10 January 1975: The road to freedom is in a typewriter
David McKie’s top 10 eccentrics in literature
Derek Brown obituary
The great unknowns get their chapters in history | David McKie
Sometimes the less famous heroes are more interesting. Their stories warrant biography, too
In 1887 the Victorian painter George Frederic Watts established a series of what he called "memorials to heroic self-sacrifice" in a spot near St Paul's cathedral called Postman's Park....
Gordon Brown, the big engine
The image of our angry, proud prime minister may have its roots in a well-known series of children's books ...
Grumpy, morose, given to bursts of ill-temper, uncomfortable with owning up when he has made a mistake – that remains...
A martyr to nostomania | David McKie
Whenever I go back to Leeds, a desire to return to old haunts dooms me to disappointment
In Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K Jerome, the narrator recalls how while afflicted with hay fever, or something similar, he consulted a book and became convinced he...
Getting readers off to a good start | David McKie