Big beasts versus the Bible
Darwin sidelined the Creator by documenting the slow mechanisms of evolution
Rebadging the past as feel-good therapy
The discipline faces not so much a crisis of history, as a crisis of historicism
Exploding the Anglosphere Dream
Is canzuk revivalism scary enough to need book-length refutation?
Nostalgia is what it used to be
Would getting Britons to close their storybook really solve Britain’s problems?
High politics and unholy power plays
British policy in the Ottoman Empire was not driven by Orientalism, but self-interest and self-deception
What a piece of work is man
Anna Della Subin’s new book explores how leaders become Gods
Who’s afraid of Queen Victoria?
Attacks on monuments perpetuate the Victoria cult