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‘The Enchanted Glass’ by Tom Nairn

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‘The Enchanted Glass’ by Tom Nairn

Eugenia Herbert: India’s Colonial Gardens

Eugenia Herbert: India’s Colonial Gardens

Mark Bevir: Marxism, Fabianism, Ethical Socialism

Mark Bevir: Marxism, Fabianism, Ethical Socialism

‘Chavs’ by Owen Jones

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‘Chavs’ by Owen Jones

Burke’s Wardrobe by William F. Byrne

Burke’s Wardrobe by William F. Byrne

‘Captain America carries, after all, not a sword but a shield’

‘Captain America carries, after all, not a sword but a shield’

A Beat in Bracknell

A Beat in Bracknell

The Occupation of Space

The Occupation of Space

Varying Forms of Ambivalence

Shakespeare, neither simply English nor British

Shakespeare, neither simply English nor British

‘When Maoists put a grass mohican on the Churchill statue, British conservatism seemed to go mad for a few days’

‘When Maoists put a grass mohican on the Churchill statue, British conservatism seemed to go mad for a few days’

A Bluer Shade of Orange

A Bluer Shade of Orange

Kidnapped!

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Rush Hour, Waterloo Station, 1970

How Midsomer Murders helps explain the UK’s CCTV phenomenon

British politics has always been big on drama

Collective hallucinations and inefficient markets: The British Railway Mania of the 1840s

‘…it’s easy to see why financial insiders think it doesn’t make much difference who wins the next UK election’

(Channel 4’s FactCheck: no more boom and bust?)

The Siege of Cádiz: Napoleon’s fatal knot