Black’s History Week
In the city
From the suburbs to the estates
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
Power, money and the English city
The development of English urbanisation
Talk of the town
On the strangeness and variety of urban development
The future of higher education
How can universities be more efficient and effective?
Bureaucrazy
Why grades can go up even as standards go down
The strange history of Keir Starmer and assisted suicide
How long, and to what extent, has the prime minister supported legalisation?
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
Booty contest
This book sets out to rebalance ahistorical narratives of how museum collections were constructed
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
Cometh the hour, cometh the dealmaker
Trump’s ego might be just what the world needs
Taking the liberal mask off prohibition
The case for the Tobacco and Vapes Bill is morally and economically unsound
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
