Natural Philosophy at Oxford University
Image: Sir John Ball, Sedleian Professor from 1996-2019 For the past 400 years, Oxford University has had an endowed chair of natural philosophy. It began in 1621, due to a…
Centennial of Britain’s First Labour Government
In 2024, Sir Keir Starmer became the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. As leader of the Labour party, he swept to power with 412 seats in Parliament. As…
Spying for Russia in the Cold War: A Grubby Scheme
Photo: British PM Harold Wilson in 1975 Back in the 1980s, PM Margaret Thatcher was obsessed with Russian spying. The so-called Spycatcher Affair became THE cause célèbre in England, and…
British Economics: 1800-1914
This book examines in detail the so-called “Laissez-Faire Experiment” that dominated British government economic policy during the long nineteenth century: 1800 to 1914. Author W. Walker Hanlon (associate professor of…
The British Constitution: A Child of Conflict
Image above: the Magna Carta My headline for this book review derives from chapter 17 in volume 1, written by Robert Crowcroft (Univ. of Edinburgh). It is one of 42…
NEW ENGLISH-AMERICAN TEA
At UK House, set up this week for SXSW, I interviewed Jonathan Jones as he poured a tea that has never before been presented to the public. “This is the…