Michael Ledger-Lomas

A Block for the Wigs, by the caricaturist James Gillray, 1783.

Human Rites

A Whiggish history of humanism from the Renaissance to the present.

A queue of mourners attend the lying in state of George V at Westminster Abbey, 27 January 1936.

How Monarchs Succeed

As the accession of Edward VII shows, a new British monarch must represent the nation’s values – whatever that nation and those values are.