Dominic Sandbrook

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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Lady Chatterley’s pyrrhic victory

  • 11 November 2010
  • 1 comment

When Penguin Books prevailed in the famed obscenity trial 50 years ago, the result was as much a victory for the free market as for free expression

What if . . . Thatcher had stayed on

  • 11 November 2010
  • 17 comments

Neil Kinnock and Paddy Ashdown led their parties into a pioneering Lab-Lib coalition.

What if . . . Britain was still a republic

  • 04 November 2010

What If ... Constantinople still held sway

  • 19 October 2010
  • 3 comments

What if . . . The Liberals hadn't split

  • 07 September 2010
  • 1 comment

What if . . . France had taken Quebec

  • 19 August 2010

What if...Britain had said no to the IMF

  • 11 August 2010
  • 4 comments

What if . . . the Confederacy had survived

  • 06 August 2010
  • 1 comment

A picture a day keeps the tyrants away

  • 02 August 2010
  • 6 comments

From Hogarth and Gillray through Vicky and Jak to Steve Bell, Fluck and Law, cartooning has served as a vital corrective to political posturing. Now, it is rediscovering its old power as a red rag to despots.

What if . . . . . . the Romanovs had been exiled

  • 26 July 2010
  • 4 comments

A witch-hunt?

A witch-hunt against the Sun?

Osborne's woes

Osborne hoisted with his own petard

Marr's monarchism

Enough of this royal deference

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?
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