British History
The blunders that restored the Crown
The Fall: Last Days of the English Republic by Henry Reece
Here be flagons
The temperance campaigners realised that a picture can achieve more than a thousand words of argument
The whores and mores of Hanoverian London
The (not so) gentlemen of 18th-century London were a libidinous lot
Are we losing control of our collections?
We need trustees who actually believe in our museums
The end of “Anglo-Saxon”?
The rebranding of Anglo-Saxon England is senseless and silly
Britain was not built on slavery and imperialism
At least in its current, extreme interpretation, the Williams Thesis is almost certainly false
A time for restoration
An interview with David Starkey
British spies and the IRA
Blair, Clinton, Ahern et al were credited with putting together the Northern Ireland peace deal, but 800 British agents also played their part
Slavery did not create Britain’s wealth
A bogus narrative is obscuring history and diminishing our national pride
Staying in place
How history and heritage enrich our surroundings
