Rick Picton Thomas would have known what to say to those bent on removing his ancestor’s statue

Beckett, Camus and Monod arrived by different roads at the same destination thanks to their common experience of fighting injustice

The rise and fall of the British newspaper

How St Louis’s statue of King Louis IX will not be toppled

Instead of the chocolate-box pink stucco houses of Primrose Hill, it was the castles and cottages of Suffolk which served as Smith’s inspiration

Remembering the Six Day War and history lessons from Dick Crossman

The historians we love wrote about Big History at a time when Britain mattered

Daniel Johnson reflects on the great discoveries of his youth

Looking back on the Georgian European vacation with the historian Jeremy Black

The Ethiopian emperor has fallen in leafy Wimbledon, but there’s more to his demise than meets the eye