Concrete Plans
The architects who adapted to the demands, whims and chicanery of the Stalinist state.
Reviews
History of a Memory
The curation, control and censorship of the life of the elusive St Ambrose.
Beware the Milkmen
A history of the dirty business of wiretapping.
Licence to Crenellate
Power, function and myth have always jostled on the battlements.
Echo Chamber
Dinner parties in the ‘Revolutionary Age’ with the publisher Joseph Johnson.
Get in the Sea
Rediscovering the disappeared towns and settlements across Britain.
No Grand Plan
The dissolution of the monasteries as a series of decisions and indecisions.
Billiard Balls
What were Indian nationalists thinking?
Rome, Zombie City
Surveying history’s various attempts to rehydrate Rome’s ‘desiccated corpse’.
Bad with the Good
The history of England’s Jewish community in a period of revolution.