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Stephen Smith

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Dr Stephen Smith MBE is the co-founder of the Holocaust Centre and the Aegis Trust for Genocide Prevention. He is also chair of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust

March 2026

  • Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville West at Sissinghurst, Kent.

    A Queer Inheritance by Michael Hall review – the National Trust’s LGBTQ history revealed

    It’s recently been accused of turning ‘woke’ – but the institution has been gay since the beginning, argues this deeply researched book

May 2009

  • Cif belief
    double quotation markA time of reckoning for the pope

    Stephen Smith

    Stephen Smith: The pope must speak positively to the Catholic faithful about Judaism; speak decisively about Holocaust denial and speak clearly about universal moral values

January 2009

  • Cif belief
    double quotation markStanding up to hatred

    Stephen Smith

    Stephen Smith: Commemorating the Holocaust is not just a job for Jews. We all have a duty to remember

January 2008

  • double quotation markFace to faith

    Stephen Smith
    Remembering the Holocaust can't change history, but it can change us, says Stephen Smith

September 2007

  • Decline and fall

    With a backdrop of violent dislocation, Michael Ondaatje's Divisadero paints a devastating portrait of family life, says Stephen Smith.

June 2007

  • Lessons of the Histories

    In Travels with Herodotus, the late, great Polish writer Ryszard Kapuscinski weaves epic stories into his own reportage to stunning effect, says Stephen Smith.

April 2007

  • Che Guevara meets Raymond Chandler

    A guerrilla mocks himself in Subcomandante Marcos's The Uncomfortable Dead, while Peter Chapman's exposé of the banana trade, Jungle Capitalists, bears fruit.

January 2007

  • double quotation markCould it happen again?

    Stephen Smith

    Stephen Smith: Despite the horrors of the Holocaust, many of us believe that most people would stand by and do nothing in the event of a new genocide.

December 2006

  • Why Greene kept taking the Tablet

    Stephen Smith appreciates a collection of Graham Greene's hard-to-find journalism, Articles of Faith.

November 2005

  • With Clare in the community

    Iain Sinclair is a worthy companion to John Clare as he traces the poet's 1841 journey in Edge of the Orison, says Stephen Smith.

September 2005

  • David Pearce

    Obituary: Environmental economist whose market-based ideas caught the changing tide of the 1980s.

April 2005

  • Tales from the riverbank

    In The Thames: England's River, Jonathan Schneer charts the course of the characterful river through history. It's a journey worth taking, says Stephen Smith.

October 2004

  • Make it short - the cab's at the door

    Jeremy Treglown takes his lead from the master of the short story in his biography of VS Pritchett.

July 2004

  • Rio con brio

    Corruption and carnival are essential characters of the most colourful country in South America. Stephen Smith assesses portraits of Brazil from Peter Robb and Ruy Castro

June 2004

  • Call yourself a conquistador...

    Toby Green sets off for Mexico in search of a utopian dreamer in Thomas More's Magician

January 2004

  • In the psychiatrist's chair is a very dangerous place to be

    Will Self reports back from his shrink-filled alternative reality in his latest collection of short stories, Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe

December 2003

  • The exotic explorer from Essex

    Norman Lewis revisits 1930s Spain in his last book, The Tomb in Seville

November 2003

  • What a capital gain

    Illustrated London by Peter Ackroyd appears to be a further step towards turning London into a celebrity

November 2002

  • Sex, death, intrigue - and a lot of slime

    Tom Fort's The Book of Eels has got all the elements of a Hollywood blockbuster, and then some...

July 2002

  • Stalking sharks or mourning camels?

    Will Randall and Justin Smith bring the expertise of a resident to their accounts of life in the Solomon Islands and Eritrea

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