History
Fight things that really matter
We must not capitulate to self-indulgent and hypocritical student outrage over Cambridge’s Seeley Library
The City’s disenfranchised voters
As the City of London goes to the polls, why are thousands being denied the right to vote?
The Critic Books Podcast: Roaring Girls
The extraordinary lives of history’s unsung heroines
Kiev and Moscow: a tale of two Russias
Ukraine threatens Putin because it offers an alternative version of Russia
As war rages we must not give in to hate
Human lives escape the simple enmities of war and nationalism
Wonders and warnings from the ancient world
A new history of Byzantium reveals the inner workings of a late antique empire
The curse of history
Campaign Diary: the war in Ukraine in context
Dr Gabriella Onan: Sex Historian
The straight-faced and straight-laced archaeologist of smut
Just a pill?
How psychiatry pathologises female experience
The birthplace of wine
Raise a toast to Armenian resilience
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
How the Navy built Britain
Culmination of a magisterial work that entwines the story of the Royal Navy with the scientific, cultural and social history of our nation
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
