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A Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, The Rest is Politics and Waterstones Highlight for 2024 ” Quinn has done a lot more than reinvent the wheel. What we have here is a truly encyclopae …

Francis Graham Wilson was a central figure in the revival of interest in political philosophy and American political thought in the mid-twentieth century. While he is best known as a Catholic writer …

Featuring essays from David Olusoga, Dawn Butler MP, Kit de Waal, Kwame Kwei-Armah, and many more. In response to the international outcry at George Floyd’s death, Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder have …

Outrageous, unfashionable, politically incorrect though many of Plato”s opinions undoubtedly are, we should not just dismiss them as thoughts now unthinkable, but think through them, recognising the …

"The Future of the Women’s Movement" by Helena M. Swanwick is a thought-provoking essay advocating feminism, women’s rights, and social change. Swanwick, a prominent figure in the suffrage …

At a time when England was an officially Protestant country to translate Catholic works, thereby helping to propagate the faith, was a brave act and to actually identify oneself in print, as did …

Finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism ”Nothing about Jenny Diski is conventional. Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring … highly intelligent, furiously funny” Sunday Times …

What was known and understood about the nature of the Nazi dictatorship in Britain prior to war in 1939? How was Nazism viewed by those outside of Germany? The British Press and Nazi Germany …