Triangular trade

The folly of turning our back to the sea

Britain’s neglect of its maritime heritage has led to shuttered shipyards, ailing fishing fleets and impoverished coastal towns

Where the streets had no name

In a John Behan bronze, collector Jacqueline O’Donovan, a child of the Irish diaspora, can sense the desperation of a starving people forced to flee their land

Royals, radicals and rebels

Over a long career, John Hardman has specialised to great effect in teasing out, from speeches, decrees, minutes, memoranda, letters, diaries and unsent drafts, the varied moods of French political de

From sexual orgies to satan incarnated as a snake, lurid depictions of ‘voodoo’ in north america long titillated and shocked readers. as david g cox explains, they were also wielded as justifications for racist oppression during the social and political upheavals of the 19th-century us

On 2 January 1893, the black American abolitionist and reformer Frederick Douglass delivered a lecture on Haiti to an audience in Chicago. It was widely alleged, he reflected, that the Caribbean repub

Let’s get slip-shod

Slippers have made their way out of the bedroom and into the street, finds Simon Mills–although not without precedent or formalities

Cutting the silken threads

A new think tank aims to help a future Reform government be like Gulliver and escape the ties that paralyse the British state

The folly of turning our back to the sea

Britain’s neglect of its maritime heritage has led to shuttered shipyards, ailing fishing fleets and impoverished coastal towns

Where the streets had no name

In a John Behan bronze, collector Jacqueline O’Donovan, a child of the Irish diaspora, can sense the desperation of a starving people forced to flee their land

Royals, radicals and rebels

Let’s get slip-shod

Slippers have made their way out of the bedroom and into the street, finds Simon Mills–although not without precedent or formalities