Podcast #265: Did Oliver Cromwell Really Kill Christmas? Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with David Crowther about seventeenth-century puritan attitudes toward yuletide debauchery—and about his acclaimed History of England podcast. Quillette 24 Dec 2024 · 15 min read
The Dawn of Anglo Canada In the 23rd instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes the first faltering attempts to bring English and Scottish colonists to Newfoundland in the early seventeenth century. Greg Koabel 3 Nov 2024 · 19 min read
British and Black Contemporary antiracism imposes an American framework that distorts our understanding of racial issues in different countries. Ralph Leonard 20 Oct 2023 · 12 min read
Captain Cook and the Colonial Paradox Cook is best understood as a quintessential figure of the European Enlightenment, with all the consequences flowing from that, positive and negative. Adam Wakeling 25 May 2020 · 22 min read
Did British Merchants Cause the Opium War? Chen’s portrait of the Opium War places the role of British traders and their lobbying efforts in the foreground Jeffery C. J. Chen 18 Aug 2018 · 6 min read
