Robert Crowcroft
Robert Crowcroft is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Edinburgh. His most recent book is The End is Nigh: British Politics, Power, and the Road to the Second World War. He tweets at @RCrowcroft
Britain’s constitutional knowledge crisis
Rory Stewart’s ignorance smells of Remainer entitlement
Seeing the big picture
The most enduring historical work reveals eternal truths about the human condition
Our enemies bring our friends closer
How can antipathy focus the mind in international relations?
Labour’s favourite banker
Questions can be asked about the relationship between the Labour Party and Anthony Watson
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
In search of forgotten heroes
The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
A Soviet revelation
David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition (58CDs, 3DVDs)
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday
History unmakers
Our national treasures are morbid symptoms of a country in decline