History
Inveterate ignoramus
Christopher Bray reviews History and Imperialism by Louis Althusser
American idealists in hell
Roland Elliott Brown reviews The Russian Job by Douglas Smith
The unhappy iconoclast of the Right
J. C. D Clark reviews Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier by D. W. Hayton
The “mulatto” Queen
Lisa Hilton debunks a growing myth about a monarch’s consort
How to get history wrong: a case study
Jeremy Black explains the strange case of Edward Lucas
Scruton’s Danubian overtures
Sir Roger Scruton: A classical composer and inspiration to Hungarian students
History man
Reflecting on a life in a British university
Eternal resurrection
James Orr reviews Tom Holland’s Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind
Latin hero of love-torn teenagers
Tibor Fischer reviews A Thousand Kisses by Frederic Raphael
A flawed masterpiece that will dominate the field
Jeremy Black reviews David Abulafia’s The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
The dark threat of nitazenes
New opioids could pose a dramatic risk to British streets
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
Could it be magic?
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
May letters
We are in grave danger of losing our musical marbles
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
All smoke and no fire
An Impact Assessment on prohibiting cigarettes is unconvincing
The creation of canals
Entering the golden age of canals
Intellectual property
Property: The Myth that built the World by Rowan Moore
Whisperings of the cruel sea
Britten: Concertos (Orfeo)
Discomfort Zone
I recommend The Zone of Interest with the greatest caution: it’s not an easy watch
The great immigration data disaster
Officials are deleting the data we need for a more sensible debate
