History

In Britain, contentious historical issues receive attention to an unprecedented degree

We could do worse than adopt the twin maxims of the western world’s two wartime leaders

Graham Stewart talks to Jeremy Black about how the power of the US president has been exercised since the Second World War.

In the dictionary of the demagogues there is only a single word: obey

Can we invent myths or are they what make us what we are?

The extremism of the project against our traditional idea of the museum is on full display at the Pitt Rivers

Greece survived the world’s worst post-2008 economic crisis and the heaviest refugee burden without yielding to far-right populism. Why?

Les Standiford’s book situates Mar-a-Lago’s surreal qualities in the larger history of Palm Beach

Thankfully, the two fascist leaders’ meeting at Hendaye remains nothing more than a footnote in history