Speaking Volumes
Geoffrey Best reflects on a lifetime collecting books and the difficulties – emotional and financial – of parting with them.
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Hague Rules OK: The 1899 Peace and Disarmament Conference
A peace conference held in Holland in 1899 in fact ended by rewriting the laws of war, says Geoffrey Best.
The Father of the Permissive Society
Geoffrey Best looks at the life of A.P. Herbert, writer, wit and MP, who played a major role in the liberalisation of British life with his reform of the draconian divorce laws.
Winston Churchill, the H-Bomb and Nuclear Disarmament
Geoffrey Best considers Winston Churchill’s growing alarm about the possibility of nuclear war, and his efforts to ensure that its horrors never happened.
Best Foot Forward
Geoffrey Best, doyen of Victorian history, demonstrates that not all leading scholars start out as swots
The Bishop and the Bomber
The role of the Church in wartime has always been ambiguous. Today, with the question of nuclear weapons to the fore, churchmen are again in conflict over the moral issues involved. With this in mind, Geoffrey Best considers an earlier occasion when the Church found itself in a similar dilemma.