George Woudhuysen
George Woudhuysen is an assistant professor in Roman History at the University of Nottingham
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
Is Beer the solution to all of life’s problems?
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions — And How The World Lost its Mind. By Dan Davies
Restless zeal of the insomniac emperor
There is something uncanny about the story of Justinian
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
Who Should Be The Next Archbishop of Canterbury?
With the shock resignation of Justin Welby, who will the Great British Public select to lead the Church of England?
An artist at the assizes
Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one