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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Books
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
UK Politics
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.
Art
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.











