Medieval History
A game of thrones
Shelley Puhak’s woman-versus-woman rivalry between queens is only part of the story
The Roman roots of the English church
Perhaps two new church histories have a salutary message for today’s C of E
Masterly study of sacred masterpieces
Embodied divinity
Medieval Warfare
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the impacts on medieval warfare
Siege Warfare
Professor Jeremy Black talks with Graham Stewart about the defence and capture of walled cities and castles
The uses and abuses of nostalgia
The old like to think they had it harder, but secretly feel they had it better, too
Good and evil on the new frontier
Our current ethical guidelines are hopelessly inadequate for a new era of unimaginable technological change
Bush and Boris: separated at birth?
Boris aped Dubya’s mistakes
Fifty shades of muck
The lost art of governing your tongue
Wagner rides again
A return to enchanted tradition in Siegfried at Longborough Festival Opera
John Adams: Slonimsky’s Earbox (Alpha)
Among his best work
We demand supply
There is no alternative to building houses
The NHS
Not clapping for the NHS
The Gen X delusion
They like to play the cynic, but Gen X built the modern world and got rich doing it
Frederick the Great and the rise of Prussia
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart talk about the role of Prussia in the eighteenth century
Nico Muhly: Stranger (AVIE)
This new album of three works offers quiet empathy more than overwhelming emotion