Nobody's perfect: a new Whig interpretation of history

John Almon : more than a bookseller

Reading the Letter : a (short) chapter of its own

Inventing postcolonialism : Burke's and Barry's Paradise lost and regained

The meaning of names : Thompson's Marvell and the Whigs

The two snuffboxes : recovering the Whig in Reynolds

Thomas Erskine : the great defender

Two steps forward, one step backwards : William Wordsworth's revisionism.