Political

The '45

Presentation of the past as a seed-bed of modernity gives it bogus relevance to modern concerns. Two hundred and fifty years after the battle of Culloden Jeremy Black looks at a classic instance – the military challenge of the Jacobites.

What is Fascism?

In the second instalment of a two part article, Roger Eatwell chooses between rival definitions of a slippery word

The New Liberalism

Raphael Mokades - the winner of the 1996 Julia Wood Award - argues that military failure in the Boer War transformed political attitudes in Edwardian Britain.

The Trauma of 1066

Elizabeth van Houts reconstructs memories of occupation (with echoes of the 1940s) from post-Norman conquest chronicles.

What is Fascism?

In the first instalment of a two-part article, Roger Eatwell looks at rival definitions of a slippery word.