Podcast
Perspectives on Churchill
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about Winston Churchill’s career up to 1940
Poirot’s little grey cells
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about Belgium’s greatest fictional detective
The detransitioners
Is it transphobic to worry about people who regret their surgery? David Scullion speaks to psychotherapist James Caspian and photographer Laura Dodsworth
French Connections
Jeremy Black discusses with Graham Stewart France’s historical inheritance
How liberal and egalitarian was nineteenth century France?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the conflicts and continuities of France from Louis Philippe to the Belle Epoque
My eighteenth century life
Black’s History Week, with Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart
Jocko vs. Evil
Jocko Willink, a retired Navy SEAL and podcaster, grapples with classic accounts of atrocity—and nurtures a spark of 20th-century American idealism
What do detective novels tell us about the period in which they were written?
Professor Jeremy Black sifts through the evidence with Graham Stewart
How the Second World War was mapped
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about a vital factor in wartime production that military history often overlooks
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
Going Rogue
An interesting if unappealingly illustrated reassessment of a neglected style
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
William Warham
A champion of the English Church unfairly eclipsed by his great rivals Wolsey, Cranmer and Cromwell
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub
The generation game
Ultimately pro-natalist in tone, this book approaches millennial worries about parenthood with curiosity and kindness
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
Out of Africa
You can say what you like about European empires, but they improved African cooking
