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Sir John Simon

David Dutton asks whether Simon was the 'Worst Foreign Secretary since Ethelred the Unready'.

The History of Deforestation

Michael Williams continues our series on History and the Environment by considering how long humans have been making ever-growing inroads into forests.

President or King?

How the Republican triumph over the Federalists in the fiercely fought US elections of 1800 was due to skilful appropriation of the American Revolution to partisan ends