Books

There was an exit door, but one which May, the Remainer, was never willing to take

The writing is laced with the sins of myth-making: boring, trite, incoherent, lazy and unfunny

The temperance campaigners realised that a picture can achieve more than a thousand words of argument

Until the Siege of Sidney Street, anarchism had been tolerated in England

The (not so) gentlemen of 18th-century London were a libidinous lot

There was much naivety in depicting the Anglo-Burmese engagement as one of mutual enlightenment

How trans activists took over the once worthy gay rights struggle

Dudley Clarke had his fingers in many of the most interesting pies of covert operations in World War II

What if one of the most useful British agents inside the IRA was also a mass murderer?

We are all historians of our own here and now