Democracy

The media coverage of the decision to exonerate the policeman who killed an unarmed black teenager has focused on the ‘night of rage’ in Ferguson, Missouri. Tragedies like Michael Brown’s in Missouri and Trayvon Martin’s

Barack’s Obama’s official visit to Flanders Field American Cemetery in Belgium earlier this year was a suitably sombre occasion, but also one which showed little appreciation of the distinctive nature of America’s relationship with the

Twenty-five years ago today, on the night of 3 June 1989, tanks moved into central Beijing to crush the ‘counter-revolutionary rebellion’ underway on Tiananmen Square, leading to the 'massacre' which made headlines around the world.

As a historian of Spain's republican past, I watched with fascination as, last night, following news of Juan Carlos I’s abdication, thousands took to the streets in Spain and abroad to demand a referendum on

Adolfo Suárez’s state funeral later today, on Monday 31 March, marks the passing of the principal architect of Spain’s transition to democracy. The story was an unlikely one. After nearly forty years of dictatorship, General

I never actually met Tony Benn. That’s a shameful thing for an historian of the British left to admit. And I do regret it. There’s really no excuse. He had a reputation for extraordinary generosity