The novel world of English literature in the 1700s
18th Century England featured an exciting literary milieu — but also political and religious upheaval. Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart investigate.
Challenge the consensus. Access rigorous analysis.
A historical perspective
Professor Jeremy Black on the reality of the slave economy created by the Caribbean’s European colonisers
Was the “Scramble for Africa” in the late nineteenth century strategically planned?
On ebbing power of the political influencer
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
