The French Revolution and its legacy
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart, about France’s eighteenth-century revolutionary ferment
Does history have meaning?
Graham Stewart talks to Professor Jeremy Black about whether the past can be a servant to the present
My eighteenth century life
Black’s History Week, with Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart
What do detective novels tell us about the period in which they were written?
Professor Jeremy Black sifts through the evidence with Graham Stewart
Michael Ashcroft on the rise of Rishi Sunak: what is he thinking? What does he intend?
In this podcast, Graham Stewart talks to Michael Ashcroft, whose new book is the first biography to be written about the Chancellor of the Exchequer
The Gove Accords
What is the significance of Michael Gove’s Brexit agreement?
How the Second World War was mapped
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about a vital factor in wartime production that military history often overlooks
Get stuck into mudlarking
Searching for treasure on the Thames foreshore is like “a giant history lucky dip”
Crunching the numbers
If Labour had voted against restrictions, could the Covid rebels have won?
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
Israel’s forever war
Netanyahu risks dragging his country and his allies into an open-ended regional conflict
Not everyone should be in therapy
Over-medicalisation hurts the healthy and the suffering alike
Hot desking
We, the special advisers of the Labour Party, seek justice!
Defend the arts … before it’s too late
It will take more than a new government and a bonfire of policy documents to put things right
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
Labour’s favourite banker
Questions can be asked about the relationship between the Labour Party and Anthony Watson
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
