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Dominic Sandbrook

Dominic Sandbrook is an author, historian and UnHerd columnist. His latest book is: Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982

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Welcome to the 17th Century

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 7 mins

Britain needs more Stanley Baldwins

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 7 mins

The Ukraine war is not complicated

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 5 mins

Vietnam still haunts America

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 7 mins

What if the USSR hadn’t collapsed?

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 7 mins

Can Starmer break Labour’s curse?

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 7 mins

How Britain became an American colony

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 7 mins

The Viking war on woke

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 6 mins

Kwasi Kwarteng was the wrong sort of clever

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 7 mins

Is Truss the worst PM in history?

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 6 mins

The history wars target Dahomey

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 7 mins

Will this be the last Jubilee?

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 7 mins

How to get over Boris Johnson

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 7 mins

America’s tribes are ready for war

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 7 mins

Why the Tories love a clown show

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 7 mins

How Boris destroyed Boris

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 7 mins

Stop pretending Britain is America

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 7 mins

How we gave up on the future

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 7 mins

The mystery of Wagatha Christie

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 7 mins

Macron is the leader France deserves

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 7 mins

Britain needed the Falklands War

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 7 mins

Putin can’t win a Cold War

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 7 mins

Kyiv will rise again

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 8 mins

How to lose a leadership election

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 8 mins

Nothing can save the BBC

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 7 mins

Putin has history on his side

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 7 mins

How to bring down a Prime Minister

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 7 mins

This is Tolkien’s world

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 6 mins

Is Boris taking us back to the Seventies?

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 7 mins

Sir Clive Sinclair: a visionary ahead of his time

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 2 mins

Is Joe Biden too old to be President?

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 6 mins

Enid Blyton is no second-rate novelist

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 2 mins

How the culture wars came for history

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 7 mins

Children don’t need woke stories

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 7 mins

Where it all went wrong for Labour

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 5 mins

Football and the decline of Englishness

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 7 mins

Prime Ministers don’t need to be virtuous

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 7 mins

What if Reagan had been murdered?

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 6 mins

Donald Trump’s 1776 Report is a comical own goal

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 2 mins

The American Dream that failed

BY Dominic Sandbrook / 6 mins