History

How on earth did the National Trust hire a non-historian to do an historian’s job?

Have the Duke and Duchess of Sussex traded short-term PR advantage for the sake of their future reputations?

Adam Curtis’s six-part history of the modern imagination is an obituary for serious or even semi-serious television

Holding together working- and middle-class voters has been Labour’s historic Achilles’ heel. Can Keir Starmer do what Clement Attlee couldn’t in 1950?

The spirit of Lockdown has paralysed the country, and the government itself

Britain’s bleak record with the slave trade makes a horrible story, but it is one not helped by getting it wrong

Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about Winston Churchill’s career up to 1940

Jeffrey Jackson’s lively and compassionate account plunges readers into the depths of the Occupation and the Channel Islands’ resistance movement

Steve Morris recalls the iconic Oxford Street basement club which has housed London’s evolving music scene since the Second World War

Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about Belgium’s greatest fictional detective