Ocean
Rich portrait of our island nation
Le Brun has written a study of Britain imagined, Britain as it recently was, and of Britain becoming
A flawed masterpiece that will dominate the field
Jeremy Black reviews David Abulafia’s The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
Anti-Christian bias is rife in Employment Tribunals
If you’re Christian, you can no longer count on a fair hearing in workplace disputes
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Digging the Holy Land’s past
Our modern controversies about Jerusalem have ancient and medieval roots
