Historians
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
How the Navy built Britain
Culmination of a magisterial work that entwines the story of the Royal Navy with the scientific, cultural and social history of our nation
A labour of love
We are all historians of our own here and now
J G A Pocock: the Antipodean’s view of Europe
John Pocock defended Britain in its broadest sense
Open the royal files
A culture of gratuitous opacity surrounds the Royal Family
Casting light in dark corners
No other historian can provide a better introduction to a big subject
In defence of narrative history
Stories make scholarship human
Rebadging the past as feel-good therapy
The discipline faces not so much a crisis of history, as a crisis of historicism
Against history snobs
Al Murray proves himself to be more than a popular historian
What are historians for?
Contemporary commentary or timeless reflection?
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Educashun, Educashun, Educashun
The blob is back, and it wants to dumb down the curriculum
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Killing with kindness
Sentimentality and euphemism cloak the cause of assisted suicide
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
Red lines
Fighting Ulster’s flag downgrade
