The Original Ladies of Letters
A new book by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann examines the female poets and literary critics who challenged seventeenth-century England’s male literary establishment.
Joan Smith
· 17 min read
British History
A collection of 7 posts
England’s Founding Father
How a 10th-century warrior-statesman forged a unified England and why his legacy still matters in our identity-obsessed day.
Ralph Leonard
· 14 min read
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
· 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
· 19 min read
British and Black
Contemporary antiracism imposes an American framework that distorts our understanding of racial issues in different countries.
Ralph Leonard
· 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
· 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
· 6 min read