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Chandler, Adam. 99% Perspiration: A New Working History of the American Way of Life. Pantheon. Jan. 2025. 304p. ISBN 9780593700570. $28. ECON Journalist Chandler (Drive-Thru Dreams) presents a book that [...]

Beiser, Vince. Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future. Riverhead. Nov. 2024. 272p. ISBN 9780593541708. $32. SCI Award-winning journalist Beiser (The World in a Grain: [...]

Mulloy, Pamela. Off the Tracks: A Meditation on Train Journeys in a Time of No Travel. ECW. Apr. 2024. 192p. ISBN 9781770417298. pap. $18.95. TRAV Novelist Mulloy (As Little as [...]

Mansfield, Howard. I Will Tell No War Stories: What Our Fathers Left Unsaid About World War II. Lyons: Globe Pequot. Apr. 2024. 168p. ISBN 9781493081080. $26.95. MILITARY HISTORY Mansfield's (Chasing [...]

Hadley, Michael L. Boxing the Compass: A Life of Seafaring, Music, and Pilgrimage. Heritage House. Apr. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9781772034738. pap. $26.95. MEMOIR Retired Canadian naval officer and scholar Hadley [...]

Yenne, Bill. The Ones Who Got Away: Mighty Eighth Airmen on the Run in Occupied Europe. Osprey. Jan. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9781472858719. $35. MILITARY HISTORY The latest World War II [...]

Jett, Philip. Stranded in the Sky: The Untold Story of Pan Am Luxury Airliners Trapped on the Day of Infamy. Turner. May 2023. 416p. ISBN 9781684429370. $29.99. HIST When Japanese [...]

Thomson, Richard. Monet and Architecture. Yale Univ. May 2018. 240p. illus. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781857096170. $40. FINE ARTS This large-format book accompanies a recent exhibition at the National Gallery [...]

Canadian examiners' objections to claims in which the examiner argues that there is not full support for the claims in the description, employing Rule 84, have become increasingly common, especially [...]

The Brackenhall Estate in Deighton, Huddersfield, was not, eight years ago, a happy place to be. A strong community spirit persisted, with many people committed to the area, but the […]

Emmaus UK is one of the charities selected for the Telegraph Christmas Appeal. To donate, please make your cheque payable to The Telegraph Christmas Charity Appeal, and send it to […]

When Dwell Developments launched its new, Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway-designed apartments, The Birchin, in the shell of an exhausted, old warehouse in the centre of Manchester earlier this year, it […]

'This area has great qualities,' Max Steinberg is insisting, from behind the chief executive's desk at Elevate, the somewhat optimistic title given to the organisation charged with reshaping battered housing […]

There have been many landmarks on the road to human liberation, but we, the Conn family, owe our freedom to a Trail-Gator. Until it came into our lives, we'd spend […]

Well, who would have thought it? That an area close to Manchester, one of whose towns has become a byword for the blighted, nightmarish north, should now be held up […]

Hodgson, Ian. Great Garden Design. Frances Lincoln: Quarto. 2015. 176p. photos. index. ISBN 9780711235731. $40; ebk. ISBN 9781781011942. GARDENING British landscape architect and magazine editor Hodgson has produced a guide [...]

Byline: DAVID CONN LOCAL RESIDENTS' groups and businesses battling against Arsenal's planned new stadium will renew their opposition after a crushing report by the Government's planning inspector concluded the massive [...]

Byline: DAVID CONN ON A patch of newly laid turf at the unlikely venue of Milton Keynes' National Hockey Stadium, the most bitterly opposed and derided stadium move in English [...]

Byline: DAVID CONN FOR A single image to capture English football's madness, Old Trafford, Wednesday night, was the place to be. A full house with all the corporate trimmings nestled [...]

For more than two years, Advance, a specialist housing association, has been negotiating the peculiar difficulties of turning a plot of land on Skirbeck Road, in Boston, Lincolnshire, into a […]

Why write about the Wirral? Kevin Sampson's novel Awaydays is a visceral account of teenage life in the midst of The Pack, the hooligan mob attached to Birkenhead's local football […]

EXETER CITY narrowly reached the FA Cup second round with a late 2-1 win over non-League Forest Green Rovers in Tuesday's replay. The fixture provided Football Focus with another opportunity [...]

Sutton Place is a 16th-century country house, once owned by the magnate John Paul Getty, lounging in 740 acres of prime land near Guildford in Surrey. The current owner, Frederick […]

'We received many moving letters from those trapped. They did not prepare us for the desolation that we saw on our visit to the North-West.' Where, instinctively, would you place […]

FOR THE generations of football supporters brought up on the idea of the League championship and FA Cup Double as the ultimate glittering achievement for any English club, it is [...]

UNTIL THE 1980s, football club directors worked unpaid, an ethic which still survives at many Football League clubs and, surprisingly, at three Premier League clubs where the directors are unpaid, [...]

ANOTHER WEEK of musical chairs and one famous decision not to retire has highlighted yet again that, for all the corporate pretensions of modern football clubs, their fortunes still wholly [...]

DAVE RICHARDS, chairman of the Premier League, member of the Football Association's 12-man main board, director of Wembley National Stadium, the Football Foundation and the Football Stadia Improvement Fund, is [...]

A THREE and a half page document, described by both sides as a 'wish list', lies at the heart of the dispute between the football authorities and the Professional Footballers' [...]

IT WAS MORE than merely symbolic that the Premier League chairmen were holding an emergency meeting yesterday to discuss the looming prospect of a strike by players in the same [...]

The Peak District is the last link in the Pennine chain: 542 square miles of hills and moorlands that thrust southwards from the dales of North Yorkshire into the heart […]

NINE YEARS on from the formation of the Premiership, any idea that the television money now flooding into English football is benefiting the game at large is surely dead. The [...]

The National House-Building Council (NHBC) describes itself proudly as 'the independent regulatory and standards setting body for the UK house-building industry'. It is currently of particularly crucial public interest in […]

Number 17 Regent Terrace is a grand Edinburgh town house built in 1828, restored recently to its original Georgian sumptuousness - or at least a version of it that its […]

Clive Benson, 45, lived the London life for close to 20 years: decent work, friends, a weekly game of football in Hyde Park, but stressed, hassled, irked by the capital's […]

AT THEIR annual meeting next week, the Football League's club chairmen will consider the proposal to increase to two the number of clubs promoted from and relegated to the Nationwide [...]

FOOTBALL SUPPORTERS are still waiting for the Government to fulfill its commitment to the so-called Independent Football Commission, nearly 14 months since the Football Task Force's final report, and four [...]

CHESTERFIELD Football Club may be cruising 15 points clear of their nearest Third Division challengers, but the atmosphere at Saltergate has curdled since Graham Bean, the Football Association's compliance officer, [...]

Early November was not, it is safe to say, the ideal time to be selling a riverfront house in Shrewsbury. Ewan McCombe's four-storey, Georgian terrace is described in his estate […]

Tom Bloxham may not yet be a name that sends the pulse of the nation racing, but in Manchester he is now, undeniably, a big fish. His company, Urban Splash, […]

THE CHAIRMEN of Southampton and Coventry City were under pressure yesterday to postpone their divisive proposal for a more equal share of the Premier League's television money, in favour of [...]

PREMIER LEAGUE lips were as sealed yesterday as the envelopes containing broadcasters' bids for the rights to televise Premiership matches for three seasons from 2001 which scudded on to the [...]

LIKE OTHER areas of football in the corporate age, the devil in the television proposals announced by the Premier League on Monday lurks in the detail. While most people's attention [...]

THE FOOTBALL Task Force will meet tomorrow, almost certainly for the last time, bringing to an end the Government-sponsored process in which most people, not least the Task Force's own [...]

MANCHESTER UNITED supporters hoping to use today's Annual General Meeting as an excuse to celebrate their victory in the battle against the proposed pounds 625m takeover by BSkyB, have found [...]

MANCHESTER CITY fans have finally learned the meaning of their footballing purgatory - double-relegation, last season's trips to Colchester, York and Wycombe, their lesser neighbours Stockport and Bury playing in [...]

CHRIS SMITH, the Minister for Culture, Media and Sport, meets the Premier League and FA chairmen today to discuss a little-publicised but nevertheless landmark event in English football - the [...]

WHEN THE Football Association announced in 1991 its backing for the Premier League, the breakaway by First Division clubs from sharing money and power with the other 70 Football League [...]

Allmer, Patricia & John Sears. Taking Shots: The Photography of William S. Burroughs. Prestel. 2014. 160p. illus. notes. ISBN 9783791348797. $49.95. LIT/PHOTOG William S. Burroughs (1914-97) was a member of [...]