Historical Thoughts
January 06, 2012 Topographies of Terror: Brendan Simms visits two new museums in Berlin memorialising dictatorship and its victims Brendan Simms
May 06, 2008 The Writing of the Grand Tour - Jeremy Black considers eighteenth century travel writing Jeremy Black
April 28, 2008 Treason in a Cold Climate: Brendan Simms on the treason of Anthony Blunt and Guy Burgess and why it matters Brendan Simms
April 09, 2008 Theodore Dalrymple and the Last Days of Rome: Theodore Dalrymple regrets paying too little attention to Latin at school - then he would have realised so much earlier the parallels between late Rome and contemporary Britain Theodore Dalrymple
October 09, 2007 Whatever the likes of Paul Craig Roberts and Claes G. Ryn might believe, today's Neoconservatives are the heirs to Burke not Robespierre, argues Brendan Simms Brendan Simms
October 03, 2007 Why teach military history? Jeremy Black explains why military history still matters Jeremy Black
June 28, 2007 Oswald Mosley's post-War exploits show him to have had few - if any - redeeming features, argues William D. Rubinstein: Very Deeply Dyed in Black: Sir Oswald Mosley and the Resurrection of British Fascism After 1945 - Graham Macklin William D. Rubinstein
June 28, 2007 Are the Flavian dynasty's self-serving attacks on Jews the roots of modern anti-Semitism? David Womersley remains unconvinced: Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations - Martin Goodman David Womersley
May 25, 2007 Harry Phibbs re-views the BBC's coverage of the 1992 Election Results - and realises that 1992's election night was a lesson in humility for everyone Harry Phibbs
April 06, 2007 The spirit of 1798 and the Good Friday Agreement nine years on: The deal-makers of 1998 have been swept away by their more hardline counterparts - but, argues John Bew, their deal lives on John Bew
March 26, 2007 Of Unions and threats: Brendan Simms examines the historical evidence and argues that, unlike the European Union, all previous successful political unions have been based on a common fear of an outside threat - not on economics Brendan Simms
March 19, 2007 Winston Churchill and the "Jewish moneylenders": Far from being an anti-Semite Winston Churchill was a lifelong Zionist and philo-Semite, argues historian William D. Rubinstein William D. Rubinstein
February 26, 2007 Cash for Honours: William D. Rubinstein offers an historical perspective - and argues that the real problem with Blair's peerages has not been the ennoblement of a few rich men, but the ennoblement of large numbers of the left-liberal establishment William D. Rubinstein
February 01, 2007 The Kennedy Thesis Considered: Jeremy Black reconsiders Paul Kennedy's Rise and Fall of the Great Powers Jeremy Black
January 31, 2007 A Report Card on the Blair Government: Historian William D. Rubinstein offers his assessment William D. Rubinstein
January 18, 2007 If we are to apologise for the slave trade, let's make those apologies truly multicultural, argues Jon Davies Jon Davies
January 11, 2007 Dead Meat and Cabinet Connivance - Corruption and the Body Politic: Jeremy Black compares the corruption of the Walpole years with the corruption of the Blair years Jeremy Black
January 03, 2007 When Scoop met Wilson: John Bew reveals what the recently released State Papers tell us about Henry "Scoop" Jackson's visit to the UK in 1974 John Bew
December 19, 2006 Sir Henry Neville and the Sonnets: Do the Sonnets show that Shakespeare's work was in fact written by Sir Henry Neville? William D. Rubinstein thinks so William D. Rubinstein
December 12, 2006 No apology for slavery - no deep sorrow: Christie Davies explains why apologies for centuries-old wrongs are not in order Christie Davies
December 05, 2006 Peter Mullen thought we had apologised for slavery - two hundred years ago Peter Mullen
November 14, 2006 Military Leadership: Jeremy Black considers the different qualities required for tactical, operational, and strategic military leadership Jeremy Black
November 07, 2006 William Shakespeare and Sir Henry Neville: A conspiracy or an agreement? - William D. Rubinstein presents new evidence which he argues confirms his claim that Sir Henry Neville was the true author of Shakespeare's plays William D. Rubinstein
October 30, 2006 FCS twenty years on - Harry Phibbs remembers his days in the Federation of Conservative Students Harry Phibbs
October 05, 2006 The Spitfire at the Science Museum: Christopher Peachment marvels at a beautiful object which - whatever some historians might now say - saved Britain from Nazi domination Christopher Peachment
October 05, 2006 The End of the Newspaper? William D. Rubinstein argues that reports of the death of the newspaper have been greatly exaggerated William D. Rubinstein
September 26, 2006 Brezhnev's Soviet Union: A true, working-class paradise? A British trade unionist's dream? Christie Davies investigates Christie Davies
September 13, 2006 Why Thucydides? William Charles explains why Thucydides' Histories are so important to neoconservatives and how they have been misinterpreted by neoconservatism's opponents William Charles
August 08, 2006 The Culture Wars Down Under: Keith Windschuttle, the Aborigines, and the Left - Part Two William D. Rubinstein
August 02, 2006 History, truth and changing perspectives - Michael Bentley argues that history is not a social science and that the conservative historian shares a certain common ground with the post-Modernist Michael Bentley
July 26, 2006 The Culture Wars Down Under: Keith Windschuttle, the Aborigines, and the Left - Part One William D. Rubinstein
June 28, 2006 The Culture Wars Down Under: John Wren, Frank Hardy, and Power Without Glory William D. Rubinstein