12/15/2025 - 12:01am

What if Napoleon had won? Counterfactual history has seldom been so rich

Boyd Tonkin

15.06

Blackadder and the end of history The Right is still losing the culture war

Alwyn Turner

25.11

How Britain became an American colony We must resist our brutal imperial overlords

Dominic Sandbrook

12.05

Why the Tories need to rewrite history The Government is creating historical myths for nakedly political ends

Aris Roussinos

11.06

Carlisle, lynchpin of the Union The UK's capital should head true north to the crossroads between England and Scotland

Michael Merrick

31.05

York was destined to be capital Re-empower the North with the first city of God's Own Country

Peter Franklin

24.04

Why we need a British history day Our past needn't simply be a source of shame – but an opportunity for reconciliation

Paul Marshall

18.12

Why you should read more history

Tom Chivers