History

A short history of war

Professor Jeremy Black offers Graham Stewart a crash course in the history of war

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Making sense of the SNP

Anglo-Scottish relations from a historical perspective

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Fifth Column

Goldsmiths University wants to topple the men who saved England

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Allsopp’s: the rebirth of the original Burton IPA

The Allsopp family has revived the original Burton IPA which made its name and fortune more than a century ago

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Were British forces a match for the Warsaw Pact?

Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the role Britain’s nuclear deterrent played in facing the Warsaw Pact

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War-war leads to jaw-jaw

This is a starkly different interpretation on the proliferation of written constitutions and rams it home with cogency and panache

Books
Ahistorical rubbish

David Frum is wrong, the Salazar regime’s “biggest project” was a success

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Television tome that needs tuning

The Magic Box is Rob Young’s impassioned, occasionally impenetrable, psycho-history of the TV of his youth

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Confronting or managing decolonisation?

Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss Britain’s military campaigns in the 1950s and 1960s

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Spain and me

David Smith on why the years following Franco’s death will always hold a place in his heart

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