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Ancient and modern

Hywel Williams — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Empire of the Mind: a History of Iran Michael Axworthy C Hurst & Co, 256pp, �20

Times of turmoil

Hywel Williams — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:00:00 GMT

Borrowed Time: the Story of Britain Between the Wars Roy Hattersley Little, Brown, 480pp, �20

The people's party?

Hywel Williams — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT

Comrades: A World History of Communism Robert Service Macmillan, 624pp, �25

A very English affair

Hywel Williams — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:00:00 GMT

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 Andrew Roberts Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 736pp, �25 ISBN 0297850768 From London to Canberra and Washington, DC, anglophone culture dominated the 20th century. Hywel Williams celebrates a provocative history of conquest and empire

Cross-Channel

Hywel Williams — Mon, 29 May 2006 12:00:00 GMT

That Sweet Enemy: the French and the British from the Sun King to the present Isabelle and Robert Tombs William Heinemann, 780pp, �25 ISBN 0434008672

NS Essay - 'Power elites dislike being identified: it threatens their covert authority'

Hywel Williams — Mon, 01 May 2006 12:00:00 GMT

Britain's secretive rulers consist of an incompetent executive class, a meaningless political class and a degraded professional class. Hywel Williams proposes a historical explanation

Easy peasy Japanesy

Hywel Williams — Mon, 18 Jun 2001 12:00:00 GMT

The Japanese past is best known in the west for its periods of withdrawal. Now, despite economic instability, Hywel Williams finds a country seeking out the world with a lavish celebration of its culture

All hail the off-the-peg gentleman

Hywel Williams — Mon, 25 Dec 2000 12:00:00 GMT

NS Christmas - The true English gent is dead. Now we make do with pale imitations, writesHywel Williams

The New Statesman Profile - Jonathon Porritt

Hywel Williams — Mon, 06 Nov 2000 12:00:00 GMT

He is our tree hugger in chief, a self-righteous prophet who now finds himself at the centre of things. Jonathon Porritt profiled

Schools that teach children to lie

Hywel Williams — Mon, 09 Oct 2000 12:00:00 GMT

Hywel Williams, a former master at Rugby, marvels at the hypocrisies, ancient and modern, that continue to sustain the English public schools