WWII
British forces on the offensive 1943-45
Professor Jeremy Black speaks with Graham Stewart about the naval firepower, the RAF’s bombing offensive and the campaigns in Greece, Italy and Normandy
The British military in the Second World War – slow or quick learners?
Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about how Britain’s armed forces adapted to the challenges of fighting the Second World War
Britain’s armed forces during the rise of Hitler
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the state and preparedness of Britain’s armed forces in the lead-up to the Second World War
Sagas to savour
Was Iceland responsible for the French Revolution, the moon landing and the discovery of America?
Studio: Liam O’Connor’s British Normandy Memorial
A dignified classical design respects its setting and the memory of wartime sacrifice
Blue bloods and brownshirts
The intricate relationship between German aristocrats and Nazi Germany
The gay anti-Nazi brotherhood
In recognising the threat Hitler posed and swimming against the tide of public opinion, the glamour boys defied the stereotypes
How the Second World War was mapped
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about a vital factor in wartime production that military history often overlooks
Tank warfare – its past and future
Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the century of the tank
The paradox of Nazi culture
The Nazis were so obsessed with the otherness of the Jews that they created an alternative cultural universe for them
Rejoice, the war is over!
Remember when Keir Starmer took the knee for BLM to demonstrate his opposition to the culture war?
Night of the ghost fascism
If a far right protest is rumoured but no one turns up, can it be counter-protested?
Badmissions procedures
Putting decisions in the hands of non-specialist administrators fails students and universities
The immobile prince
Political chaos masks the stagnation of French economic life
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Plague and progress
In the 17th century, disease drove social and urban change in England
You can’t legislate away hatred
Don’t just do something, stand there
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
Terence Rattigan
The subtly subversive chronicler of Englishness still makes grown men cry
Two-tier immigration?
Britain has its border priorities out of whack
If you come at the king…
Trump’s response to being shot has affirmed his status as a Great Man of History
