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Michael Gove’s history curriculum is a pub quiz not an education
21 March 2013

The rote sets in.

Books
An unremittingly dull history of World War Two
24 January 2013

World War Two: a Short History - review.

Books
Keeping history on the straight and narrow
11 October 2012

History in the Making - review.

Europe
Europe on the verge of a nervous breakdown
27 June 2012

All across the continent, economies are in a tailspin as the numbers of young, jobless men swell. Are we on the brink of repeating the catastrophe of the 1930s?

Books
Hitler: a Short Biography
12 March 2012

It's hard to think why a publishing house that once had a respected history list agreed to produce t

Beware of easy historical parallels – Merkel is no Brüning
12 February 2012
Ideas
1066 and all that
23 January 2012

Michael Gove argues that schools should teach children about kings, queens and wars. He's offering a

Europe
The myth of the Fourth Reich
24 November 2011

The spectre of history looms over the eurozone crisis and Germany’s role in it.

Books
Exorcising Hitler: the Occupation and Denazification of Germany
11 March 2011
Books
The SS: a New History
23 August 2010

This history of the “engine room” of Hitler’s attempt to conquer the world is a good general introdu

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