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Why is the history of Britain so often thought to be an ‘island story’? There is, after all, nothing inevitable about islands ending up as unitary states. If Greenland is the largest thing we can call an
At death, we enter myth—our lives and work become the subject of stories told by others. Charlotte Brontë was one of the myth-makers. Shortly after her sisters’ deaths in 1848-49, she penned a 'Biographical Notice
If you had read my Wikipedia entry several years ago you would have found the following: "His long-awaited biography of Lord Haw-Haw is now long overdue." Thank you, to that anonymous scribe. Even some friends
The Cold War began as a metaphor. It was an analogy that used temperature to indicate a state of conflict just short of an actual ‘hot’ war. When George Orwell coined the term ‘Cold War’
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,
This week a book I co-wrote with Tim Hitchcock was published. London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690-1800, published in print and as an eBook, is intended to have an original