British Library
Murder stories for December days
Jeremy Black makes his way through the British Library’s Crime Classics collection
Murders for the onset of shorter days
Professor Jeremy Black on British Library Crime Classics and his favourite ‘whodunits’
Unfinished Business at the British Library
The British Library’s new exhibition on feminism is like being hit with a rolled-up copy of Spare Rib
Why the government’s planning overhaul won’t fix the housing crisis
Don’t waste an opportunity to solve Britain’s biggest problem
Napoleon Bonaparte: A PR nightmare
On the bicentenary of his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains a curiously stubborn rampart of cultural history in France and beyond
The unexpected Brexit bonus
Britain’s vaccination success has saved lives and will boost economic output by billions
Boris is getting off the BLM train
One country seems to have embraced the group’s ideology and world view; The other rejected it fully
In praise of Sky Pool
Social distancing means something different up here
Free speechers are missing the point
The newly announced Higher Education Bill won’t be the great champion of free speech that people think it will be
Land and sea: the global reach of Britain’s armed forces in the nineteenth century
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the reach and organisation of Britain’s armed forces in protecting and expanding the British empire
Brexit has freed the EU
Now the brakes are off, the EU is morphing into a full-fledged transfer union
Making love to the camera
Tory MPs are astonished to discover that CCTV exists
The cloak of woke
Are “progressive” leaders just canny politicians?