History
The role of prime minister from Gladstone to Johnson
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart on how the role of the Prime Minister has changed in the past 200 years
Our “Nation’s Village Hall” turns 150
Anna Price tracks the emergence and endurance of Albertopolis, and how the Royal Albert Hall ties it all together
Thatcher and me
From Finchley Grammar to Jerusalem, Moscow, and Washington: David Smith recalls his lifelong association with Margaret Thatcher
The evolving role of Prime Minister
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about how the role of prime minister evolved in its first one-and-a-half centuries
Scandal, corruption and collusion: 300 years of British prime ministers
As this month marks a significant milestone in our parliamentary democracy, Nigel Jones says that sleaziness has an historic precedent at No. 10 Downing Street
How imaginative should historians be?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about archival research and the importance of source material
Hats off to the great British greasy spoon
Steve Morris celebrates the great British institution of the greasy spoon ‘caff’ and predicts that it will thrive again in a post-Covid world
Books you might have missed
Jeremy Black recommends three history books that have been neglected by literary reviewers
The Road and the fork-tongue rogues
Minoo Dinshaw fills in the gaps in an official guide to Scottish history
Thick as Thebans
Frederic Raphael reveals how Paul Cartledge makes the case for a central historical role for Oedipus’s home town
An island for asylum
Is the Home Office serious about sending asylum seekers to a British island?
Winston’s not back
If you didn’t want the bus to crash, why did you get on?
Sinclair Hood: The archaeologist who bucked orthodoxy
The former director of the British School at Athens, who died last month at the age of 103, had a productivity in his old age that was both rare and admirable
Shostakovich: Symphonies 9 and 10 (LSO Live)
In terms of sheer wealth of experience, few conductors can compare to Gianandrea Noseda
Is China heading for global empire or Soviet collapse?
Dan Blumenthal’s new book wants us to be pessimistic, realistic, and proactive
The fine art of beetroot
Lisa Hilton swoons over postmodern but pricy three-star brilliance in Paris
Ban Trans myths by writing ‘FACT’
Prevent the rise of fascism by letting the state arrest people for what they think
How the pandemic has remade women ‘the Angel in the House’
As we celebrate International Women’s Day, has a year of lockdowns shown us that equality in the home is still a fantasy?
Face facts: the Union is a dead duck
English nationalism is returning from its long slumber, ready to stand proud once again
Splendid isolation
Patrick Galbraith laments the increasing loneliness of rural life