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 ...

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

James is joined by Richard King, Rory Scothorne and Andy Beckett to makes sense of the devolved and local election results last week and consider what the collapse of old party loyalties and the rise ...

Harry Redknapp thinks the England team should have an English manager. I think that we benefit from some outside wisdom. No English club manager has ever won the Premier League. On trial for tax ...

Bad magic attracts bad money. Brion Gysin had a preternatural instinct for the fluctuations of the art market, ...

Beyond the violence and immediacy of his language, perhaps Marat was popular for a more straightforward reason: he ...

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

If Joyce’s politics were hard to decipher, it was partly because he concealed his Parnellism behind something of ...

In early modern England, ‘people were surrounded by feathers all the time,’ as ‘the gentry flew their hawks, servants plucked ...