The Victorians
Dazzled by manias and lured by wild gambling
The drives behind the Victorian periodical press and penny literature
Land and sea: the global reach of Britain’s armed forces in the nineteenth century
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the reach and organisation of Britain’s armed forces in protecting and expanding the British empire
Entering the world of Weird fiction
The short stories of the long nineteenth century through the lens of Covid-19
Emerging from the shadow of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Placing the poems of Pre-Raphaelite muse Elizabeth Siddal in context
Our “Nation’s Village Hall” turns 150
Anna Price tracks the emergence and endurance of Albertopolis, and how the Royal Albert Hall ties it all together
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
An awful warning
Ainsworth’s fate was sealed not how he wrote but what he placed at the heart of his stories
Unusual eminent Victorian
Christopher Fildes reviews a new biography of Walter Bagehot
In defence of British theological education
Critics should be more optimistic about the new generation of ordinands
The case for Christian converts
Don’t let allegedly bogus conversions cause you to forget that real ones exist
February letters
Questioning Cameron, cautioning Houellebecq and disputing the image of God
The establishment prefers distractions to solutions
Politicians discuss irrelevances rather than confronting the obvious
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
Vanishing act
Jeremy Hunt did not, in fact, pull a rabbit out of his hat
What does the Scottish Hate Crime and Public Order Act really say?
Misunderstandings are the fault of Police Scotland and government ministers
Intellectual property
Property: The Myth that built the World by Rowan Moore
Crocodile Keir
For all of Sunak’s shoddy timing, Starmer’s opportunism was pathetic
The darkness of assisted dying
The desire to end terrible pain is understandable — but the dangers are severe
