Articles By Francis Phillips

Defying the trend: mothers of large families

Francis Phillips

May 06, 2024

Doctor and monk: the life of Michael Strode

Francis Phillips

August 24, 2023

Maggie, Hitler and the leaders’ club

Francis Phillips

January 23, 2023

A child’s-eye view of Communism’s absurdities

Francis Phillips

January 04, 2023

A very human saint: the Poustinia diaries of Catherine Doherty

Francis Phillips

July 11, 2022

‘That divine eccentric’: a quirky British genius

Francis Phillips

April 07, 2022

Where can an unbeliever find consolation in a tragic world?

Francis Phillips

February 15, 2022

Albania's years of torment under a psychopathic communist dictator left deep scars

Francis Phillips

December 16, 2021

The Amur River: the desolate, depopulated border between Russia and China

Francis Phillips

October 12, 2021

British journalist satirizes the ‘fear factor’

Francis Phillips

July 26, 2021

Winston Churchill: great as a statesman, disastrous as a father

Francis Phillips

May 19, 2021

Re-examining the Shroud of Turin

Francis Phillips

May 04, 2021

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Francis Phillips

April 13, 2021

Discovering the beauty of music in harsh environs

Francis Phillips

March 25, 2021

Remembering a 'golden age' when great writers entertained ordinary people

Francis Phillips

February 19, 2021

Apostle to the lepers, poet in the wilderness: John Bradburne

Francis Phillips

February 12, 2021

The unhappy son of a 'keen' Nazi fails to clear his father's name

Francis Phillips

January 14, 2021

A last generous act from a high achiever

Francis Phillips

December 10, 2020

The dangerous paranoid nonsense of conspiracy theories

Francis Phillips

November 13, 2020

Review: 'The Colour of the Sky After Rain'

Francis Phillips

November 02, 2020

Delving into the depths of Dickens

Francis Phillips

September 24, 2020

Tillotson: the British mandarin class before the 1960s deluge

Francis Phillips

May 17, 2019

‘Tolkien’: The early life of a creative genius on the big screen

Francis Phillips

May 04, 2019

‘Detainment’: should a film about two boy murderers have been made?

Francis Phillips

February 01, 2019

What’s in a name? The Nazi taint in ‘Asperger’s syndrome’

Francis Phillips

October 18, 2018

Can there be too many biographies of Dr Johnson?

Francis Phillips

October 10, 2018

Can you be a feminist and pro-life?

Francis Phillips

October 04, 2018

Alfie Evans: the uses and misuses of language

Francis Phillips

May 02, 2018

The last Tsar: Nicholas II loved his country 'not wisely but too well'

Francis Phillips

February 07, 2018

Suzanne's Children: One woman's selfless effort in Nazi Paris

Francis Phillips

November 13, 2017

Party Animals: My Family and other Communists

Francis Phillips

October 20, 2017

Doctor Zhivago at 60: a spiritual masterpiece

Francis Phillips

January 13, 2017

Soviet gulags revived the ancient tradition of Christian martyrs

Francis Phillips

August 02, 2016

The Walls are Talking

Francis Phillips

July 29, 2016

God Is No Thing

Francis Phillips

July 18, 2016

The Romanovs: 1613-1918

Francis Phillips

July 14, 2016

The heroic life and mysterious disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg

Francis Phillips

April 12, 2016

Church of Spies

Francis Phillips

February 04, 2016

Adventures in the Book Pages

Francis Phillips

January 14, 2016

The Crime and the Silence

Francis Phillips

January 04, 2016

The Road to Character

Francis Phillips

August 13, 2015

House of Hospitality

Francis Phillips

July 22, 2015

Stalin's Daughter

Francis Phillips

July 13, 2015

Napoleon: A Life

Francis Phillips

May 13, 2015

Family politics: domestic life under 20th century dictators

Francis Phillips

April 08, 2015

The making of men

Francis Phillips

March 18, 2015

Why does Pope Francis keep dropping hints about a century-old dystopian novel?

Francis Phillips

February 04, 2015

The enduring appeal of C S Lewis

Francis Phillips

January 13, 2015

The bitter lessons of unbridled freedom

Francis Phillips

October 23, 2014

The Sense of Style

Francis Phillips

October 08, 2014

A long and winding road

Francis Phillips

September 16, 2014

Principalities and Powers: Spiritual Combat 1942-1943

Francis Phillips

September 12, 2014

Ten novels to make you passionate about history

Francis Phillips

September 03, 2014

Mandela: My Prisoner, My Friend

Francis Phillips

August 26, 2014

Is this the most miserable place on earth?

Francis Phillips

June 17, 2014

A country priest, a Norwegian heroine, an American lady: bookmarks

Francis Phillips

June 11, 2014

From Grantham to grandeur

Francis Phillips

January 19, 2014

Penelope Fitzgerald: the valiant life of a mother and novelist

Francis Phillips

December 19, 2013

Year Zero: A History of 1945

Francis Phillips

December 13, 2013

Race With the Devil

Francis Phillips

November 29, 2013

Red Love: The Story of an East German Family

Francis Phillips

November 15, 2013

Permanent Present Tense

Francis Phillips

October 21, 2013

My tutor, The Bard

Francis Phillips

August 07, 2013

Iron Curtain

Francis Phillips

July 17, 2013

"The Last Man in Russia"

Francis Phillips

July 08, 2013

"Going Solo"

Francis Phillips

July 04, 2013

"Servants"

Francis Phillips

June 25, 2013

Former People

Francis Phillips

April 02, 2013

Just Send Me Word

Francis Phillips

January 14, 2013

Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor

Francis Phillips

January 10, 2013

"I am very happy now"

Francis Phillips

November 09, 2012

Unapologetic

Francis Phillips

November 02, 2012

The Fix: How addiction is invading our lives

Francis Phillips

September 11, 2012

Not me

Francis Phillips

September 04, 2012

Green Philosophy

Francis Phillips

July 19, 2012

Religion for Atheists

Francis Phillips

April 02, 2012

All Hell Let Loose

Francis Phillips

January 30, 2012

Becoming Dickens

Francis Phillips

December 12, 2011

Arguably

Francis Phillips

December 05, 2011

Burghley: the Elizabethan mastermind

Francis Phillips

November 03, 2011

Ghosts of Empire

Francis Phillips

October 03, 2011

Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids

Francis Phillips

August 18, 2011

A Pilgrim in Spain

Francis Phillips

July 15, 2011

Yes, do set the world on fire

Francis Phillips

May 03, 2011

To Miss with Love

Francis Phillips

April 28, 2011

Jesus of Nazareth - 1

Francis Phillips

April 06, 2011

Vale Elizabeth Taylor

Francis Phillips

March 26, 2011

Tolstoy: A Russian Life

Francis Phillips

February 01, 2011

Red Plenty

Francis Phillips

January 17, 2011

Light of the World

Francis Phillips

December 10, 2010

Spoilt Rotten

Francis Phillips

November 30, 2010

"Patriotism is not enough"

Francis Phillips

November 11, 2010

The last of the legendary Mitfords on her eccentric family

Francis Phillips

October 29, 2010

The Uses of Pessimism

Francis Phillips

October 12, 2010

Son of Hamas

Francis Phillips

September 17, 2010

Hugh Trevor-Roper

Francis Phillips

August 02, 2010

The World Turned Upside Down

Francis Phillips

July 27, 2010

Hitch-22: a memoir

Francis Phillips

June 16, 2010

Contested Will

Francis Phillips

May 25, 2010

Choose Your Weapons

Francis Phillips

May 02, 2010

Are We Related? The New Granta Book of the Family

Francis Phillips

April 09, 2010

The English Marriage

Francis Phillips

March 16, 2010

Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India

Francis Phillips

January 29, 2010

Finest Years

Francis Phillips

January 22, 2010

A witness who paid the price

Francis Phillips

December 29, 2009

Americans in Paris

Francis Phillips

December 11, 2009

The Fall of the Soviet Empire

Francis Phillips

November 04, 2009

The Weight of a Mustard Seed

Francis Phillips

July 01, 2009

Chinese Whispers

Francis Phillips

June 09, 2009

A Postcard from the Volcano

Francis Phillips

June 03, 2009

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Francis Phillips

May 12, 2009

A Saint on Death Row

Francis Phillips

April 22, 2009

"Balding. Can't sing. Dances a little."

Francis Phillips

March 11, 2009

Why Us?

Francis Phillips

March 05, 2009

Heroes: History’s Greatest Men and Women

Francis Phillips

February 20, 2009

A life rich in significance

Francis Phillips

January 27, 2009

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire

Francis Phillips

January 23, 2009

Battered by bleak midwinter blues? Try poetry

Francis Phillips

January 09, 2009

Our Times: The Age of Elizabeth II

Francis Phillips

December 05, 2008

My Life with Karol

Francis Phillips

November 28, 2008

Called out of Darkness

Francis Phillips

November 12, 2008

The Death of Captain Cook

Francis Phillips

October 31, 2008

Real Education

Francis Phillips

October 17, 2008

Reviving an enigmatic Russian

Francis Phillips

September 26, 2008

China: A Wolf in the World?

Francis Phillips

August 21, 2008

Family resemblances

Francis Phillips

August 21, 2008

Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel

Francis Phillips

August 01, 2008

To the Castle and Back

Francis Phillips

July 18, 2008

Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism

Francis Phillips

June 18, 2008

Atonement lite

Francis Phillips

June 07, 2008

Retribution: the Battle for Japan, 1944-45

Francis Phillips

May 21, 2008

The Roman Triumph

Francis Phillips

April 24, 2008

Nothing to be Frightened Of

Francis Phillips

April 14, 2008

Poe: A Life Cut Short

Francis Phillips

April 11, 2008

Hillary Clinton's family manifesto

Francis Phillips

March 19, 2008

The Death of the Grown-Up

Francis Phillips

February 23, 2008

Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution

Francis Phillips

February 12, 2008

The art of dazzling employers without saying a word

Francis Phillips

January 25, 2008

The Whisperers

Francis Phillips

January 11, 2008

George Kennan: A Study of Character

Francis Phillips

December 31, 2007

Man and Woman God Made Them

Francis Phillips

December 15, 2007

The gospel according to Mma Ramotswe

Francis Phillips

December 14, 2007

How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read

Francis Phillips

November 22, 2007

The Slave Ship: A Human History

Francis Phillips

November 08, 2007

An eminent Victorian

Francis Phillips

October 11, 2007

The Himmler Brothers

Francis Phillips

October 05, 2007

Tom Sawyer & Co: an endangered species

Francis Phillips

September 29, 2007

Motherhood is a day job too

Francis Phillips

September 21, 2007

The Threat to Reason

Francis Phillips

September 13, 2007

Everything conceivable

Francis Phillips

August 03, 2007

Three who changed the world

Francis Phillips

July 20, 2007

Günter Grass's ultimate fiction: his life

Francis Phillips

July 06, 2007

Mystery of malignity

Francis Phillips

June 20, 2007

Edith Stein's intellectual pilgrimage

Francis Phillips

June 13, 2007

A violent passage through history

Francis Phillips

June 07, 2007

The Power and the Glory

Francis Phillips

May 14, 2007

Curious George

Francis Phillips

May 03, 2007

Titan A.E.

Francis Phillips

May 03, 2007

Mighty, The

Francis Phillips

May 03, 2007

North

Francis Phillips

May 03, 2007

Mississippi Burning

Francis Phillips

May 03, 2007

Queen of Fashion

Francis Phillips

April 29, 2007

Affluenza

Francis Phillips

April 19, 2007

Stanley, Africa's greatest explorer

Francis Phillips

April 10, 2007

Infidel

Francis Phillips

March 30, 2007

Daughter of the Desert

Francis Phillips

March 15, 2007

The Western canon through Christian eyes

Francis Phillips

March 10, 2007

A Perfect Mess

Francis Phillips

February 21, 2007

From the shadows of Stalin's Russia

Francis Phillips

February 01, 2007

Sacred Causes

Francis Phillips

November 17, 2006

Good intentions mired in Iraqi sands

Francis Phillips

November 10, 2006

The War of the World

Francis Phillips

October 06, 2006

The Language of the Third Reich

Francis Phillips

September 20, 2006

The future of female altruism

Francis Phillips

August 14, 2006

Islam's empire-building tradition

Francis Phillips

July 31, 2006

Conserving our social capital

Francis Phillips

July 19, 2006

The bard of the windswept Orkneys

Francis Phillips

June 30, 2006

The Lost Men

Francis Phillips

June 16, 2006

Lincoln: a life of purpose and power

Francis Phillips

March 30, 2006

Unspeak

Francis Phillips

February 22, 2006

Dragons of fanaticism still breathe fire

Francis Phillips

January 25, 2006

Deciphering the Bard

Francis Phillips

December 08, 2005

Earthly Powers

Francis Phillips

November 12, 2005

The Myth of Hitler's Pope

Francis Phillips

September 28, 2005

Changing unjust laws justly

Francis Phillips

September 16, 2005

Heirs of Abraham

Francis Phillips

September 03, 2005

Men of Honour

Francis Phillips

August 19, 2005

A Kibbutz Childhood Remembered

Francis Phillips

July 22, 2005

Mao: The Unknown Story

Francis Phillips

July 08, 2005

The Da Vince Code Hoax

Francis Phillips

June 18, 2005

Quo vadis, Europa?

Francis Phillips

June 03, 2005

Bringing the house down

Francis Phillips

May 27, 2005

Tabloid tittle-tattle

Francis Phillips

December 10, 2004

The death of the death of God

Francis Phillips

November 19, 2004