Beneath Oxford University, archaeologists have uncovered a medieval city that altered the course of English history. A review of The World Before Domesday: The English Aristocracy 900–1066 by Ann Williams. A review of Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey by Rachel Hewitt. A review of Empires of the Imagination: Politics, War, and the Arts in the British World, 1750-1850 by Holger Hoock. A review of Empire and Globalisation: Networks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, c.1850-1914 by Gary Magee and Andrew Thompson. How many isles are there in the British isles? Putin’s World Cup victory over hapless Britain is another sign of Anglo-America’s decline. Why does America invest so much psychic energy, not to mention hard dollars, in professional football, a sport that on many levels combines the worst aspects of roller derby and professional wrestling? A review of American Freak Show: The Completely Fabricated Stories of Our New National Treasures by Willie Geist. Here is a map of North American English dialects, based on pronunciation patterns. True north strong and free? Canada is the capital of political correctness run rampant. A review of Local Government in a Global World: Australia and Canada in Comparative Perspective. Lisa Gorton considers a new edition of Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The True Story of Australian Writer P.L. Travers, Creator of the Quintessentially English Nanny by Valerie Lawson. Australia: Are you England in disguise? There are predictions that English must inevitably lose its global dominance; Robert McCrum is not convinced. A review of The English is Coming! How One Language is Sweeping the World by Leslie Dunton-Downer. A review of The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel by Nicholas Ostler (and more). From The New Criterion, a special issue on the Anglosphere and the future of liberty.
