Military History
The Crimean War
Professor Jeremy Black on how Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire found themselves fighting together in the Crimea
Overarching view of the air war
These two volumes are a solid starting point for understanding the British and Commonwealth air war
Was there a military revolution in early modern Europe?
Professor Jeremy Black explores and debunks some generalisations about war in early modern Europe
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
Warfare in the classical world
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the nature of warfare in Ancient Greece and Rome
The myth of the plucky Brit
Notwithstanding our favourite WWII stories, derring-do doesn’t win wars
A short history of war
Professor Jeremy Black offers Graham Stewart a crash course in the history of war
The long view: Britain’s armed force
Graham Stewart and Jeremy Black on how the British military has been shaped over the last two hundred years
A town called Egmont
A.S.H. Smyth yomps to the scant, wind-battered ruins of the first British colony on the Falkland Islands
Dark rumblings at the RIBA
Secretive shenanigans concerning the future home of its drawings collection arouse concern about the wisdom of the governance of the RIBA
Chasing votes on foreign soil
Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania
With their pants down
The Conservatives are in a nightmare they cannot wake up from
Single-minded
Enjoy some new malt whiskies coming to market
Katharine Birbalsingh is wrong about religion in schools
Education should prepare us for the good life, not just good grades
No joke
Scotland’s Hate Crime Act is absurd, but nobody’s laughing
Giving noticing a bad name
Observing factual differences is not the same as leaping to conclusions
Matthew Parris and the illusion of independence
Those in flight from human dependency are the ones who cannot be realistic
Good for the sole
April calls for a recipe that combines the incoming and departing treats
The worm (re)turns
Dune: Part Two is in cinemas — and it’s more of the glorious same
How widespread is NHS qualifications fraud?
A viral Twitter post raises uncomfortable questions about the level of training in British institutions
