The wrong side of history
Rishi Sunak has rejected the idea that Britain will be censured by posterity. Yet history is not a moral court
ByRishi Sunak has rejected the idea that Britain will be censured by posterity. Yet history is not a moral court
ByA rediscovered memoir from an Auschwitz survivor offers powerful lessons for our own reckonings with the Holocaust.
ByFrank Trentmann’s history reveals how modern Germany found a new moral purpose after the horrors of Nazism.
ByA new history shows how the clever, ambitious queen was no match for the post-truth politics of Henry VIII’s court.
ByThe 20th century’s most influential history book foresaw the collapse of the Soviet Union and rise of China. Thirty-five years…
ByThe two dictators considered themselves engaged in a life-and-death struggle with Western imperialism – and retaliated with their own plans…
ByThroughout his career, Britain’s wartime prime minister studied how other leaders – Roosevelt, Attlee, Stalin and Gandhi – exercised power.
ByDebates about Britain’s colonial legacy are not just a product of Brexit or woke politics – empire has always been…
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