British History
The making of a multi-national state
What the Scots and Irish brought to Westminster
England’s fair and pleasant land
It’s not cricket; it’s the murky world of identity
The ways of Whigs
What unites the parliaments of the 18th and 21st centuries?
Have we lost our minds?
Our shallow and insincere public discourse pales by comparison to the bitter, but profound, politics of the Edwardian era
Building a new world on the ruins of the old
After all this drama, what kind of England ultimately emerged?
Stanley Baldwin, unfairly vilified pragmatist
A leader of great personal qualities
A fabulous box of geeky delights
Historic house inventories provide a remarkable insight into building histories
The Bedfords: a marriage of minds
Keir Davidson draws on abundant family archives to paint extensive biographies of artistic and scientific patronage
Bring back the traitors
To abandon the crime of treason is to move towards a post-national future
Against the HRification of history
Hand-wringing about “relatability” divides more than it unites
Saving my own bacon
Only the particularly pig-headed will stick it out in the pork farming business
Britain must develop economic resilience
The Houthis have exposed our devastating economic insecurity
Bring back the Law Lords
Tony Blair’s introduction of a US-style Supreme Court has served to undermine the supremacy of Parliament
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
A talented pianist and a battered piano
Bezhod Abduraimov: Shadows of my ancestors (Alpha-Classics)
The enigma of Englishness
The English have debated their national nature for centuries
Slavery did not create Britain’s wealth
A bogus narrative is obscuring history and diminishing our national pride
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
A mum’s place is in the Irish constitution
Ireland’s constitution is rare in protecting mothers, so why change this?
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
Their transition too (w/ Emma B)
Children are not secondary characters in their parents’ story
