Linda Colley | The New York Review of Books

A Constitution Nowhere and Everywhere

Despite the absence of a single codified document, there is a long tradition of writing about the United Kingdom’s constitutional history.

The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom

edited by Peter Cane and H. Kumarasingham

October 17, 2024 issue

Country House Equality

October 21, 2021 issue

How British Is It?

The Met’s reinstalled British Galleries take a new approach to the question: What is British art and design?

The British Galleries

at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

The New British Galleries

by Wolf Burchard, Max Bryant, and Elizabeth St. George

September 23, 2021 issue

Letter

Country House Equality

October 21, 2021 issue

An Open Letter to Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, and Donald Tusk, President of the European Council

March 21, 2019 issue

What Gets Called ‘Civil War’?

David Armitage’s ‘Civil Wars: A History in Ideas’

Civil Wars: A History in Ideas

by David Armitage

June 8, 2017 issue

Facing Napoleon’s Own EU

In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon’s Wars, 1793–1815

by Jenny Uglow

November 5, 2015 issue

A Tale of Two Empires

Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830

by J.H. Elliott

July 17, 2008 issue

The Sea Around Us

Atlantic History: Concept and Contours

by Bernard Bailyn

The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640–1661

by Carla Gardina Pestana

June 22, 2006 issue

Tough Guys

From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity

by Leo Braudy

May 13, 2004 issue