History

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

When competing languages collide, demography eventually supersedes prestige

Germs have been laying waste to civilisations for 50,000 years

The case for reopening the asylums

The cooling of the earth, not its warming has proved most destructive

Why Spengler still matters

No other historian can provide a better introduction to a big subject

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?

The myth of British educational parochialism