Censoring Indian History
Laws against religious offence in India have altered the writing and understanding of the nation’s past.
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Florence’s Mud Angels
Backpackers, travelling through Europe, forged a new wave of international collaboration.
Burke to the Future: The Evolution of Conservatism
The Conservatives are enduring a crisis of identity and purpose. Not for the first time, the work of the great 18th-century philosopher, Edmund Burke, is seen as offering a path to the party’s reinvention.
The Greatest Library Before Alexandria
The bronze-age city of Mari was second only to Babylon, and the library of tablets it held offers rich insight into all aspects of an intricate political world.
A Good Germany?
Britain’s entry into the Second World War ushered in a wave of anti-German sentiment, creating strange bedfellows across the political spectrum.
The Friendly Recluse
Medieval hermits were the agony aunts of their day.
The Road to Equality
The Sexual Offences Act of 1967 was not the great step forward it is sometimes purported to be.
A Foreign Affair
Michael Flynn, the former US national security adviser, was recently accused of violating the Logan Act of 1799 for his communications with the Russian ambassador. But what is this act, for which no one has ever been convicted and only two people charged?
The Wolf Must Be in the Woods
The real and mythical dangers of the wilderness.
Imperial Designs: Cromwell’s Conquest of Jamaica
Oliver Cromwell’s invasion of Jamaica in 1655 in transformed Britain’s early empire.