Political

Walter Bagehot

Banker, economist, editor and critic, Bagehot “was the antithesis of the grand Victorian man of letters.”

Honest Tom Wharton

John Carswell analyses some of the foremost political actors in the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

Algernon and the Rye House Plot

Only by a trick of fate in 1683, finds J.H.M. Salmon,  were Charles II and his brother preserved from an ambush that might have put an end to monarchy in England.

Cicero’s Year in Cilicia

David Stockton describes an important stage in the life of Cicero, the Roman philosopher, politican and theorist.