12 May 2021 - 1:15am

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

Aris Roussinos

11.05

Where it all went wrong for Labour This mess has nothing on the screaming mobs and punch-ups of the Battle of Benn-Healey

Dominic Sandbrook

21.04

It’s the Queen or tyranny Progressive calls to abolish the monarchy forget the sinister alternative

Mary Harrington

21.04

Football and the decline of Englishness Heart, home, liberty, belonging — our national sport is like any other faith

Dominic Sandbrook

16.04

How Game of Thrones saved the North Ten years on, its fantasy world has turned Britain's national story upside down

Ed West

30.03

What if Reagan had been murdered? A successful assassination attempt could have precipitated an eternal Cold War

Dominic Sandbrook

20.03

The populist spirit of the Paris Commune One hundred and fifty years ago, revolutionaries were far more interested in democracy than feminism and Marx

Robert Tombs

17.03

How the Irish became white There is more than some truth to the country's folklore

Razib Khan

12.03

The lockdown that created Frankenstein One woman took advantage of a cancelled summer to invent science fiction

Ed West

12.02

China will never stop rewriting history No party on earth leans more on myth to create unity than the CCP

Isabel Hilton

11.01

Why America is haunted by Ancient Rome Even as the Capitol was seized, historical parallels were being drawn

Tom Holland

21.10

It’s the end of the line for Britain’s industrial heritage The magnificent railway works at Horwich in Lancashire are being absorbed into suburban sprawl

Jonathan Glancey