Black’s History Week

Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house

Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen

The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries

The development of English urbanisation

On the strangeness and variety of urban development

How can universities be more efficient and effective?

Why grades can go up even as standards go down

Why intellectual life needs more, and more systematic, criticism

Why are our universities in decline?

How canals retreated into quiet obscurity