History books
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Keeping the memory of Peterloo aliveLetters: June Purvis says the massacre influenced the suffragettes, Harry Galbraith fears that the people of Britain today are much less likely to show mass dissent, Alan Braddock says Peterloo is not forgotten in Manchester, and John Richardson points out that more people were killed in the 1831 Merthyr rising -
Political writing from Terrance Hayes to the Anglo-Saxons – books podcastAs the midterm elections loom, we welcome a poet whose verse is carved from this divided moment and search for the deep roots of political writingPodcast -
Churchill: Walking With Destiny by Andrew Roberts – reviewAn upbeat biography of our wartime leader glows with Brexit-friendly feelings of national greatness -
In brief: Wasted Calories and Ruined Nights; Tell Them of Battles, Kings and Elephants; Land of the Living – reviewJay Rayner shares his kitchen nightmares, Mathias Énard breathes new life into the 16th-century Ottoman empire and Georgina Harding tells of war, loss and survival



Book of the day Capitalism in America by Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge – review