History
Writer Dodie Smith’s influences were far from Primrose Hill…
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
How I discovered History
Remembering the Six Day War and history lessons from Dick Crossman
Why are we so interested in Historians?
The historians we love wrote about Big History at a time when Britain mattered
How I discovered Art and Architecture
Daniel Johnson reflects on the great discoveries of his youth
The Grand Tour – what the British got up to abroad
Looking back on the Georgian European vacation with the historian Jeremy Black
Emperor Haile Selassie gets the Ozymandias treatment
The Ethiopian emperor has fallen in leafy Wimbledon, but there’s more to his demise than meets the eye
Decolonise … Maths?
Algebra and arithmetic in the modern sense were not due to the Greeks, writes Mark Ronan
The most hateful decision
Honour, power and will at Mers-el-Kébir 80 years ago today
Portugal’s bookish dictator
At least in the eyes of his supporters, António de Oliveira Salazar succeeded in making Portugal great again
Brideshead Revisited at 75
In its combination of glacial beauty and lovelorn desperation, Brideshead Revisited speaks to all readers, Alexander Larman writes
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
Fear Ireland’s shadow banks
The Emerald Isle is ripe for a volatile market correction
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
Let’s diversify the curriculum
If we really want diversity, we need to get more traditional
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
