The Moth, a two-seater airplane launched by Geoffrey de Havilland in 1925, was central to many of the great aviation feats ...

Sir Philip Sassoon, the Under Secretary for Air, in replying, said: General Spears was under some misapprehension. Royal Air Force armoured car units had been functioning in Iraq as well as in ...

It’s surely something to celebrate that the most famous Scot in world history is a poet. Royalty and dictators get far too much attention as ...

Philip Sassoon was (among other things) an exotic, an aesthete, a plutocrat, a politician, a patron of the arts, a society host and an arbiter of taste. Harold Nicolson once wrote that he was ‘the ...

Philip Sassoon would have been most surprised that today the most famous Sassoon is a hairdresser called Vidal. Next in the fame stakes is the poet Siegfried, with Phllip, his cousin, a distant and ...

The Indian roots of Beirut’s Maghen Abraham synagogue are a reminder of the city’s cosmopolitan nature and the harmony before ...

Poor Victor Sassoon is hardly remembered anymore. “Poor” is perhaps not the best word to employ. During the 1920s and 1930s, after all, he was one of the richest men in the world, a global ...