History

How Shinzo Abe and his country resisted stagnation

Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss Germany’s political arena in the years leading up to the First World War

The resemblance between woke and the Reformation goes beyond means to content

Christopher Booker’s stinging takedown of the 1960s, The Neophiliacs, is even more relevent today

The Reformation has left us with a precious legacy

The second-hand book trade has lost much of its romance and charm, not to mention eccentric establishments and their owners

The Whig interpretation of history explains much that is malignant in modern progressivism

Communism in Poland was brought down by an underground network of learning, journalism and culture that flourished in defiance of state control

The most enduring historical work reveals eternal truths about the human condition

Jeremy Black discusses German identity in the 700 years between Charlemagne and the Reformation