Empire

Melanie Phillips’ article in the The Times on Tuesday caused quite a stir among historians and the general public alike. Twitter responded with indignation: Check twitter just now - who's Melanie Phillips & why's everyone

I’m a sucker for a vaguely historical TV show. While channel hopping a few weeks ago, I caught an episode of Phil Spencer’s Stately Homes. It focused on Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire and included some detail

Not another book on Europe! Every new crisis prompts historians to reconsider previous attempts to develop the idea. For many Europeans, the issue of sovereignty, in the sense of control over one’s own political body,

The debate on the EU referendum is never far from a historical comparison or ‘lesson’. David Cameron warned that ‘What happens in our neighbourhood matters to Britain. That was true in 1914, 1940, 1989...and it

Oriel College Oxford today announced that the statue of Cecil Rhodes will not be removed. It looks like Rhodes won't fall just yet, but I still think and hope he should. Just last week January, History

As students campaign for the removal of the statue of Cecil Rhodes from Oriel College Oxford, we need to ask ourselves: how are we to deal with our colonial past? I have written before on this