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Let’s come straight to the point. What is history in schools for? I ask because the answer, though currently widely debated, seems to be far from obvious to our rulers, or even to some who teach the subject. I’m not wholly surprised: I...
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Book Review
A London beset by impoverished young people in marauding gangs, so respectable women fear to walk the streets. Products of poverty-stricken homes where fathers have vanished, or no homes at all when parents were dead or couldn’t cope....
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With the headlines full of pre-election sparring, it seems that one of the pivotal decisions of modern times is almost upon us. But despite all the patriotic rhetoric about the Mother of Parliaments, Britain’s democratic record is looking...
Book Review
The first men on the Moon were an odd couple indeed. According to American author Craig Nelson, Buzz Aldrin was told by a superior in the US air force that he was too competitive, too insensitive to others and likely to become “a hot-...
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It’s been a week for memorialisation - monuments unveiled, artefacts returned and donated, and even the Queen is giving history lessons. Meanwhile, there are concerns and makeovers for historic sites, and Britain’s 'official history'...
Book Review
Mussolini once declared: ‘‘Every anarchist is a baffled dictator”. The anarchists of the 19th–20th centuries were among the great losers in the struggles from which emerged the totalitarian regimes of the mid-20th century....
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The Scandinavian aspect to the history of the Second World War is one which rarely breaks the surface. Yet, behind the apparently simple narrative of occupation, resistance and neutrality, there are many fascinating tales, not least among them the...
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The fraught debate about the future of the Post Office might seem, on the surface, merely technical – what is the best way of, say, delivering letters or paying pensions? But today’s rows about privatisation and local post office...
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