Mughal Movember!

So that’s nearly it for another year. The nights are closing in. Christmas is coming. People everywhere are gearing up for the office party and its traditional festive fisticuffs. We’re coming, alas, to the end of ‘Movember’. People are a bit cynical about the annual blokey fuzzurnalia, but frankly, it’s all in a damn good…

The Academic EU-minati.

I have a confession to make. I’m part of a major conspiracy. Having been given extensive funding by the evil Eurocrats in Brussels, I’m brainwashing the youth with ‘lefty tripe’, gushing about ‘the merits of the European project to innocent and easily-led undergraduates’, sharing my podium with ‘Bolsheviks, anarchists, Trotskyites and’, wait for it, ‘aggressive…

Did Early-Modern Men Do ‘Women’s Work’?

It’s one of the great unanswered questions of English History. The theory, at least for early-modern England, was pretty clear. Men were supposed to earn the money, women did the domestic chores and raised the children (and then also earned some money). Not for nothing did a proverb of the time have it that a…