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
The Napoleonic Wars
Professor Jeremy Black discusses why and how Europe was engulfed in wars with France between 1792 and 1815
Thai feasts, muscular unionists and literary panjandrums
The Critic Narrated: Episode Four, with Lisa Hilton, Henry Hill and our Secret Author
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
Can we save our parish churches?
It will take cultural as well as institutional change
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
Kemi goes postal
The former business secretary and current Tory leader is grilled over a late delivery
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
The Lost Gardens of London
The war between city and greenery is eternal; the concrete and asphalt seeks open land to engulf
