What difference do individuals make to history? This question is explored in Margaret McMillan’s new book, History’s People. 

HE was a neat, quietly-spoken, witty, smallish man of Irish extraction who was liked wherever he went, in New York during the Roaring 20s. Not that he went that many places.

Hinterland

LOCKDOWN: Avery Montgomery (Richard T Jones) is a champion swimmer enjoying the simple life.

Mike Tyson says that Lennox Lewis ‘‘should have died’’ during the pair’s press conference scuffle in New York in January.