EU Referendum

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 run-up to the EU Referendum has taken place in the wake of the completion of two major annual projects for achieving a cultural peace in Europe: the Eurovision Song Contest and the UEFA Champions’

If there is a European question it is this: how does a society come into existence and how is it maintained? This question has been articulated at key moments in European history. It was asked

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

What is Europe? The answer to this question is notoriously complicated, which in itself sets Europe apart from all the other continents. As soon as Greek geographers had distinguished the three landmasses to the North-East, the

I have been asked to reflect on the piece by the  group ‘Historians for Britain’ in History Today. The piece in question is not terribly original, yet it is precisely in its triviality that its