Dominic Sandbrook
Dominic Sandbrook is a historian and author. His books include Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles and White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties. He writes the What If... column for the New Statesman.
Articles by Dominic Sandbrook
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Music
Eat, drink, and empty your pockets
- 23 June 2011
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Today’s rock festivals may be full of Sixties spirit, but the spectacle and sensation go back to ancient Rome.
Society
President Windsor
- 05 May 2011
- 9 comments
The Queen has spent 60 years giving the impression that the monarchy is somehow detached from everyday political life. That’s what makes her such a skilled politician.
Society
Family, faith and flag
- 07 April 2011
- 2 comments
The Labour Party lost four million voters in England between 1997 and 2010. To win them back, it needs to reconnect with old core values that now seem strangely conservative.
Society
The man who wouldn’t be king
- 29 December 2010
- 27 comments
It will be 350 years ago in January that Oliver Cromwell was convicted of treason and posthumously beheaded. But who was this reluctant republican – and could he be the greatest politician in our history?
