Stanley G. Payne
Stanley G. Payne is an emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His most recent books in English are Civil War in Europe, 1905-1949 (2011) and The Spanish Civil War (2012), both published by Cambridge.
Digging up Franco, burying history
The resurgent Spanish left wants to exhume the former dictator’s remains and even outlaw any favourable mention of his legacy
The food bank of Threadneedle Street
Andrew Bailey and the art of apocalypse banking
Private schools are a waste of money
Both Left and Right overstate their effect on educational ability and achievements in later life
The time to stop Russia is now
War in Ukraine is but the next step in the Soviet empire’s 30 year march
Henryk Mikolai Gorecki: Piano pieces (Accord)
A furious, unfiltered revelation of the experimental heart of a familiar composer
Whose day is it today?
We’ve hit on the perfect way of denying women a social and intellectual heritage
Seductive, scholarly life of the poet-priest
This new biography of John Donne brings the centuries-dead poet to life
Men to the left of us, men to the right of us
With male allies like these, who needs male enemies?
Victory for For Women Scotland
The definition of a “woman” is common sense — so why has it taken so many court cases to prove so?