A recurring historical analogy in discussions of Brexit over the past few months has been the Conservative Prime Minister Robert Peel’s decision to back repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846. In lowering the price
Andrew Heath
It’s not been a bad week or so for students of nineteenth-century American history. After one populist politician spurred a flurry of interest in the mugwumps of the Gilded Age, another has just sparked curiosity
Many names have been hurled at Jeremy Corbyn during his short reign as Labour leader. As playground insults go, though, Boris Johnson’s ‘mutton-headed old mugwump’ takes some beating. Mugwumps, as several journalists who have been
The victory of a self-proclaimed socialist, Bernie Sanders, in the New Hampshire Democratic Primary seems to go against much of what we know of American politics. For most of the twentieth century, after all, historians
Sepp Blatter’s house of cards is finally tumbling to the ground. After facing down allegation after allegation of corruption in football’s governing body, FIFA’s chief has been brought down, it seems, by a U.S. investigation
Sometime around 1869 the Devrees household in Abraham Lincoln’s Illinois welcomed a new child into the world. The infant was born into a large farming family: his siblings included a Thomas, a William, an Alice,