Tito: Britain’s Man in Belgrade
During the Cold War successive British governments did all they could to maintain a friendship with Tito’s Yugoslavia. Why was the communist strongman so important to Westminster?
Winston Churchill
VE Day: The Quiet After the Peace
When VE Day finally came in May 1945 it was met with relief, exhaustion, and cynicism. Was the Second World War in Europe really over?
How Does History Judge Prime Ministers?
Political reputations are forged by actions, but the long view of history can be hard to predict.
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
Britain’s Second World War Conservatives and their utopian dream of world government.
‘D-Day Has Come’
In spring 1944 the Allied invasion of France seemed inevitable. D-Day’s success was contingent on deception of the enemy. For that, officials turned to the press.
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
Cita Stelzer’s Churchill’s American Network and David Reynolds’ Mirrors of Greatness seek to bring Churchill’s contemporaries and adversaries out of his shadow.
The Prime Minister and the President
John F. Kennedy idolised Winston Churchill, but his efforts to host his hero proved abortive.
War Orgasms
Assessing the Churchill balance sheet.
The End of the French Empire in North Africa
Signed at the height of the Second World War, the Atlantic Charter set out the terms for the decolonisation of French North Africa.
The World According to Churchill
Churchill’s vision of Britain’s role in the world may provide the key to Brexit.