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Occasionally when the phone rang at the London Review offices in the late 1990s it would be the operator asking if ...

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This concept of subjecthood soon applied in England’s infant colonies, including in America, where, after the Revolution, it ...

Before the final yesterday I was puzzled as to why Jennifer Hudson was singing the US national anthem: did they think ...

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My friend Jawad Ali, a Palestinian American lawyer, was at his daughter’s graduation last month when he got a ...

I n her Clarendon Lectures ​ , given at Oxford in 2023 and recently published as Poetry’s Nature (Oxford, £25.99), Susan ...

Afriendly ghost hovers over The Modern British City, the collaborative project of a crack team of historians of urban life. H.J. (Jim) Dyos died in 1978, still in his fifties, but as the UK’s first ...

Calvin’s​ Case (1608) is, as one of its judges, Sir Edward Coke, put it, ‘magnum in parvo … a matter of great consequence upon a slender subject’. The case concerned whether a Scottish child could ...

Self-Help from the Middle Ages raises some provocative questions about historical figures. Was Thomas Aquinas truly ...