Alex Middleton
Alex Middleton is a historian of nineteenth-century Britain and Fellow of St Hugh’s College, Oxford.
When the Left thought free trade meant peace
Socialists, communists and liberals were united by a conviction that free trade could, and would, promote democracy and justice
Sparkling sweep of the turbulent south
A new history beautifully distils revolutionary cultures in post-Napoleonic Europe
Will TikTok take to Tocqueville?
Popular history can be more than everything ribald and rip-roaring and frenetic and fun
The thorn in Starmer’s side
Why does Rosie Duffield scare the Labour leadership?
Was The Bible written by slaves?
A new book maintains that enslaved scribes and readers may have affected the shaping of Christian ideas
J.K. Rowling does it again
Why does one woman’s opinion cause so much outrage?
Women have bad odds with Dodds
This appointment is an insult from Keir Starmer
Confessions of a left-wing Pope
Life: My Story Through History by Pope Francis with Fabio Marchese Ragona
Gender and Josef K.
How it feels to be accused of crimes that don’t exist
This isn’t about me
Who? Me? A future Conservative Party leader? Well, if you say so…
Chasing rainbows
Dissident civil servants have been risking their careers to fight a losing battle against burgeoning Whitehall wokery
Riffs or rigour?
Arts practice has gained the upper hand over scholarship
The sordid truth about the 68ers?
Some claim the “anything goes” philosophy of the left-wing intelligentsia resulted in sex crimes