There was a time when the Labour conference really mattered, before it became a stage-managed platform for social media hits and soundbites

The early medieval period really was “dark” both in terms of the historical record and in contrast to the sophistication of Rome

History is being twisted for political purposes

Tip-toeing around Republican crimes is obscuring modern history

With Brexit settled, Britain must seek to engage with its unalterably European cultural heritage and identity

A Cambridge college tried to remove his memorial plaque and the Church branded him a “slave trader” but, in fact, this royal retainer was a philanthropist

Sometimes a place should be allowed to decline

It is nonsense to claim that London was “built by immigrants”

Now languishing in undeserved obscurity, Tobias Smollett should be remembered

The rise and fall (and rise?) of the Commonwealth club