The Killing Age with Clifton Crais
One of the great terrors of the Enlightenment lay in the way it justified death as the cost of progress. Clifton Crais explains his view of 'the Killing Age'
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A collection of 20 Posts
Mad Tom's Rising with Ian Breckon
The author Ian Breckon recalls one of the most peculiar revolts in English history
You Are Elizabeth Bennet with Emma Campbell Webster
The author Emma Campbell Webster invites you to step into a Jane Austen novel
Meet me at the Cemetery Gates
Little spaces, profound stories. Roger Luckhurst tells us about London's hidden cemeteries
What Matters in Jane Austen? with John Mullan
250 years after she was born, Jane Austen continues to outwit her readers, as John Mullan explains
Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle with Richard Vinen
Richard Vinen tells us about his biographical study of 'the last titans'
Victor Grayson, War, Trauma and Politics with Stephen May
Stephen May engages with one of the great mysteries in British political history
A Brief Atlas of the Lighthouses at the End of the World
Jose Luis González Macías on the wild beauty of lighthouses
Fire at the Guildhall
Leonora Nattrass takes us back to 18th century Cornwall and a brewing political scandal
