England

How the Pilgrims Redefined What It Means to Move Across the World

Yoni Appelbaum Explores the Puritan Origins of Modern Ideas About Migration

 
By Yoni Appelbaum  February 19, 2025
Family Stories

Fictionalizing Family: On What’s True and What’s Invented About Our Origins

By Linda Grant  November 13, 2024
Travel

Bernardine Evaristo is letting writers crash at her house for free.

By Brittany Allen  October 25, 2024
The Royal Family

How the British Monarchy Made Breakfast the Most Important Meal of the Day

By Tom Parker Bowles  October 23, 2024
Medieval History

What the Story of Richard II and Henry IV Reveals About the Nature of Power

By Helen Castor  October 17, 2024
Social Movements

Animal Rights Are Women’s Rights: Why British Suffragettes Went Vegetarian

By Elsa Richardson  October 4, 2024
European History

How the Future Henry V Began His Royal Career

By Dan Jones  October 3, 2024
On The Self

A Precarious Arrangement: On Appearance, Coloniality and the Creation of the Self

By Dionne Brand  October 1, 2024
Revolts

Turning Peasants Into Pinions: At a Child’s Grave in Mousehold Heath, Near Norwich

By Ben Ehrenreich  September 13, 2024
The Hub

They paved Pemberley and put up a parking lot.

By Brittany Allen  July 10, 2024
What to Watch

Teenage Queen: Behind the Scenes on the Set of My Lady Jane

By Alexis Gunderson  June 27, 2024
Colonialism

What Jane Austen’s Work Can Tell Us About the British Imperial Project

By Corinne Fowler  June 11, 2024
Pandemics

Britain’s Forgotten Pandemic: What We Failed to Learn from the Outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease

By Scott Preston  June 10, 2024
Nature Writing

What Do You Get When You Cross the Contemporary Novel with Nature Writing?

By Fiona Williams  April 10, 2024
Missed Connections

On the Missed Crimean Connection Between Leo Tolstoy and Florence Nightingale

By Melissa Pritchard  March 15, 2024
Women Writers

What Virginia Woolf Got Wrong About Lady Anne Clifford

By Ramie Targoff  March 13, 2024
Medieval History

Phillipa Gregory on How the Norman Invasion Brought Patriarchy to England

By Philippa Gregory  February 28, 2024
Queens

How Anne Boleyn Captured Our Collective Imagination

By John Guy and Julia Fox  October 23, 2023
Poets

How W.H. Auden Made Austria His Adopted Home

By Michael O’Sullivan  October 19, 2023
Medieval History

Faith, Power, and Survival: What Ruled Life in Early-Medieval England

By David Mitchell  October 11, 2023
Reissues

A Lot of Pain and A Lot of Humor: Ottessa Moshfegh on Dinah Brooke’s Lord Jim at Home

By Ottessa Moshfegh  September 14, 2023
Poets

Hiding In Plain Sight: Patrick Gale on the Life and Work of Poet Charles Causley

By Patrick Gale  July 18, 2023
English History

How Queen Elizabeth I Remembered and Honored Her Mother, Anne Boleyn

By Tracy Borman  June 28, 2023
Ancient History

Searching for Sacred Landscapes: On Finding the Sublime in Solitude

By James Canton  April 26, 2023
Keen On

Louise Hare on Writing Black Life in England (And How to Write a Successful Second Novel)

By Keen On  February 16, 2023
Pilgrimages

Diary of a Pilgrimage: Marking the Gravesite of Assia and Shura Wevill

By Emily Van Duyne  November 9, 2022
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