War

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

Fake news is a feature of the ‘post-truth’ world, which we are supposed to have entered some time last year between the EU referendum and the election of Donald Trump as President of the United

On 26 January 2017, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (BAS) held their annual unveiling of the Doomsday Clock, moving its minute hand from three minutes to midnight to 2 minutes and 30 seconds. Since 1947,

The Second World War exerts a peculiar hold over filmmakers. Although we’re half-way through the centenary of the Great War, and fifteen years into the post-9/11 ‘forever war’ on terror, it’s the 1939-45 conflict that

In 1919 a series of special international football matches were held between the British home nations. They were not to honour or remember the dead but to celebrate victory in the Great War. For all

Military history sells. The British public alone spends around £60 million a year on it. The public spend around £60 million a year for books on military history. Market data provided in private correspondence with