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The Critic takes the measure of the glittering candidates for the Cambridge Chancellorship

The appointment of lord-lieutenants is a very discreet — and very English — affair

Few objects in the long history of the Catholic church stir the imagination quite like the fabled sedia stercoraria. With a name that roughly translates as ‘dung chair’, the myth of the so-called papa

How Chaucer reshaped English poetry

T HE JOB OF PRIME MINISTER REQUIRES THREE ...

Ellie Cawthorne Why was the winter of 1641–42 such a pivotal time in British and Irish history? Jonathan Healey In the heart of that winter came one of the most iconic moments in English political his