Malcolm Crook

Desk Revolutionaries: The Men of the French Directory, 1795-9 by Biancamaria Fontana sets the record straight on the French Revolution’s great experiment in governance.

How Napoleon bestrode Europe, playing a deadly serious ‘game of thrones’.

Malcolm Crook takes a fresh look at the eighteenth-century alliance between philosophers and kings.

As France's voters prepare to elect a new legislative assembly this month, Malcolm Crook reflects on the apprenticeship of democracy in the first half-century after the Revolution.