History
Empire of the Imagination
Historical metafiction
The Unnatural Herstory Museum
There is no real reason for museums to segregate what was hers and his
The Critic Books Podcast: Penelope Corfield’s The Georgians
How different was the eighteenth century to our own?
Punta del where?
Old Europe lives on in the new world
The fit and famous
To strive, to struggle, to sweat, is to be human
Chamberlain’s fictional rehabilitation
Netflix’s sympathetic take on the great appeaser is ultimately unconvincing
My interiors life: weaned on the small screen
My formative years and future
tastes in all things were formed by
1950s and 1960s television,
Joseph Roth’s golden twenties
When Hitler came to power, the bubble burst
The story of the people, by the people
What is History, Now? offers a passionate defence of the pluralism of historical study
The Critic Books Podcast: The Barn
The Barn is a history of the lives, landscapes, and lost ways of an old Yorkshire farm building
Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism
Don’t forget Armenia
Armenians, once the target of genocide, are under threat again
The secrets of familial suffering
Recovering from the burden of generational pain can be a private act
Silence speaks volumes
Lee Anderson speaks out — or, at least, gets someone else to do it for him
The campaign against National Conservatism is a disgrace
A peaceful conference is facing state and activist intimidation
It is they who will surrender
We have all of tomorrow’s excuses today
End of the Biden farce?
The President’s fragility has been obvious for years — but was he ever in control?
Keep your shirt on
Don your white shirt with a flash of scarlet à la the fashion bitches
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
