3 March, 2014
Laura Ludtke
Laura Ludtke considers how deafness in the nineteenth-century challenged received ideas about language.
Michael Easson
Michael Easson finds Edmund Burke miscast as a conservative in Jesse Norman's new biography.
Riki Miyoshi
Riki Miyoshi on the final installment of Kevin Sharpe's epic history of the changing image of the English Monarchy, Rebranding Rule.
Special Issue: Comics
23 December, 2013
Laura Ludtke
Laura Ludtke introduces the proliferating world of online comics and, in particular, Kate Beaton's satirical re-drawing of history.
9 December, 2013
Edward Hicks
Brendan Simms writes important counter histories, but his objectivity dwindles when he turns his gaze upon contemporary events.
25 November, 2013
Fergus McGhee
Fergus McGhee finds that though Reza Aslan has produced a necessary counter history, he underestimates the power of Jesus' non-violence.
11 November, 2013
Priyasha Mukhopadhyay
Priyasha Mukhopadhyay finds that an Amazonian waterlily can offer insight into the interactions between Victorian culture, science and imperialism.
14 October, 2013
Gabriel Roberts
W.G. Hoskins' reflections on the English landscape veer between historical insight and ill-founded nostalgia.
Special Issue: Translation
8 July, 2013
Liz Sawyer
In recovering the contexts of Thucydides’s history, Jeremy Mynott faces the perennial challenges of translation.
24 June, 2013
Rhian E. Jones
She retains her haunting power, but the official life begins with a Thatcher more real than we might have imagined.
