Is Nationalism still Europe’s Dominant Political Ideology?
Four historians consider whether the continent that gave the world the nation state still remains in its thrall.
Four historians consider whether the continent that gave the world the nation state still remains in its thrall.
It is often claimed that press censorship came to an end in England at the close of the 17th century. But it persisted, thanks to an unsavoury network of government spies.
The general election of 1918 was a ‘cynical muddle’ held as influenza killed thousands across a country emerging from the First World War.
The first German constitution was ratified in April 1871. Designed by Otto von Bismarck to preserve the old regime, it would eventually help bring about its downfall.
The Representation of the People Act, which received royal assent on 30 July 1948, abolished university constituencies.
Four historians consider the harm caused by those who should have helped their political masters.
A British public relations company in cahoots with sympathetic MPs was unable to whitewash the military regime that seized power in Greece in 1967.
In the politically chaotic decades before true universal suffrage, some infants found a way to vote in British elections.
How presidential images show us that in politics, as in entertainment, appearances matter.
Boris Johnson is facing a national crisis like few other prime ministers. Which of his predecessors will he draw comparisons with?