History
How the Second World War was mapped
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about a vital factor in wartime production that military history often overlooks
The BBC’s worst mistake
A separate channel dedicated to British sport could have saved the BBC
The freedom to achieve freedom
The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed 99 years ago this week. As Brexit talks enter the last lap, Nigel Jones argues that the Treaty could offer a model to follow
Get stuck into mudlarking
Searching for treasure on the Thames foreshore is like “a giant history lucky dip”
Vintage volume: The Story of Wine
The story of wine is a glorious story which illuminates the topics of more conventional histories
Fishermen’s tails
Through history, Mermaids have been treated as more real than legendary, even by those who have had a reputation to uphold
Unvarnished tyranny
This is perhaps the only book I have yet read about Amin which gives anything like an accurate assessment of who he was
Tank warfare – its past and future
Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the century of the tank
A Royal fogey reassessed
Understanding George and his reign is crucial to our post-progressivist consideration of the history of patriotism
A fanatic heart
On the 50th anniversary of his public suicide, Nigel Jones reflects on the strange life and bizarre death of the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima
