London gossip, Dickensian Christmasses and experimental castles
The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Robert Thicknesse, Alexander Larman and Charles Saumarez Smith
The American Civil War – could the South have won?
Professor Jeremy Black discusses how the Confederate forces hoped to overcome the superior numbers and resources of the North
The Critic Books Podcast: Heiresses
Having a fortune is not quite all it’s cracked up to be
Fast food and stolen goods
The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Daisy Dunn and Michael Prodger
The Critic Books Podcast: The Gardener
On this episode of The Critic Books podcast, Francesca Peacock speaks to Salley Vickers about The Gardener
The Indian Mutiny
Professor Jeremy Black on the British military presence in India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Unexpected music and a crisis of theology
The Critic Narrated: Episode Six, with Sarah Ditum and David Scullion
The Crimean War
Professor Jeremy Black on how Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire found themselves fighting together in the Crimea
The Critic Books Podcast: Learwife
The first episode of The Critic Books Podcast: in conversation with J. R. Thorp.
Feminists, F1 rivalries and couples therapy
The Critic Narrated: Episode Five, with David Starkey, Boris Starling and Claudia Savage-Gore
This England
We should celebrate the glorious wartime cinematic masterpiece that Churchill wanted to ban
We’re all living in America
Britain’s elite is obsessed with Trump and the States, when it needs to concentrate on the Home Front
Davie, Davie, give us some answers do
Why the BBC keeps obscuring the truth of sex and gender
It’s the only one for me, nicotine
Once again, public health fanaticism is being prioritised over simple pleasures
It is they who will surrender
We have all of tomorrow’s excuses today
Canals go national
Canals gave Britain a single national economy, one that connected resources, factories, population centres and ports
Nicola Sturgeon and the WhatsApp Group of Secrets
Stern but lovable Scot, Professor Sturgeon, would tell us the whole truth…wouldn’t she?
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
A Freudian slip
Was Golden Age Vienna the birthplace of the modern mind?
Best bets for Cheltenham
My racing tips for Cheltenham
Legal laughs
Legal “humour” is seldom more than mildly amusing
