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A collection of 22 Posts

The General Strike of 1926 with Jonathan Schneer post image

The General Strike of 1926 with Jonathan Schneer

The General Strike of 1926 marked a precarious moment in British political and social history, as Jonathan Schneer explains

A History of Intelligence with David Brydan post image

A History of Intelligence with David Brydan

David Brydan, the author of Smart, explains how our ideas about human intelligence have changed over time

The Killing Age with Clifton Crais post image

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'

Mad Tom's Rising with Ian Breckon post image

Mad Tom's Rising with Ian Breckon

The author Ian Breckon recalls one of the most peculiar revolts in English history

The Men Who Sold Honours post image

The Men Who Sold Honours

Stephen Bates looks back at a very British form of political corruption

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The Low Road

Katharine Quarmby writes about the pleasures and pains of the late Georgian Era

You Are Elizabeth Bennet with Emma Campbell Webster post image

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 post image

Meet me at the Cemetery Gates

Little spaces, profound stories. Roger Luckhurst tells us about London's hidden cemeteries

Jane Austen the magical novelist with John Mullan post image

Jane Austen the magical novelist 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 post image

Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle with Richard Vinen

Richard Vinen tells us about his biographical study of 'the last titans'

Victor Grayson and the Trauma of World War One with Stephen May post image

Victor Grayson and the Trauma of World War One 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 post image

A Brief Atlas of the Lighthouses at the End of the World

Jose Luis González Macías on the wild beauty of lighthouses