History
Profile: Tobias Rustat
A Cambridge college tried to remove his memorial plaque and the Church branded him a “slave trader” but, in fact, this royal retainer was a philanthropist
Twists of the tongue
When competing languages collide, demography eventually supersedes prestige
Pandemics, plagues and pestilence
Germs have been laying waste to civilisations for 50,000 years
Gimme shelter
The case for reopening the asylums
Climate change: lessons from the past
The cooling of the earth, not its warming has proved most destructive
OK Doomer
Why Spengler still matters
Casting light in dark corners
No other historian can provide a better introduction to a big subject
Canada’s grave errors
Why does a country once regarded as a model of moderation and sanity now view itself as a seething den of blood-soaked bigotry and white supremacy?
Getting school history wrong
The myth of British educational parochialism
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