Hand-wringing about “relatability” divides more than it unites

Will your interpretation of history be more interesting than the real thing?

Warning: contains passages of symphonic transcendence

See it, say it, haunted

James Gillray could be cruel but was a fine propagandist

Two hundred years after his birth, critic and poet Matthew Arnold still has much to teach conservatives

The strange afterlife of Bonfire Night

The making of a TV historian

Britain isn’t working any more

Richard Vinen offers a rewarding portrait of ordinary lives and increasingly mediocre politicians