How was the balance of power maintained in the eighteenth century?
In this edition of Black’s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Geopolitics and the Quest for Dominance, explains how calculations over Europe’s balance of power and the Eastern Question set up the conditions for what became The Great Game rivalry between Russia and Britain.
How different was the eighteenth century to our own?
The Barn is a history of the lives, landscapes, and lost ways of an old Yorkshire farm building
Was the American Republic destined to dominate the continent?
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Britain needs a fairer and more moral economic system
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
We are making young adults un-ready for work
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
