History


Statistically significant angels

Zac Alstin | 11 November 2011 |
tags: history, human dignity, warfare
Did the 20th Century really usher in a decline in violence, even with two World Wars?


Burghley: the Elizabethan mastermind

Francis Phillips | 03 November 2011 |
tags: history, Reformation, UK
Brilliant, bold and cold-blooded, Elizabeth's chief statesman dominated his age and shaped the history of England.


Gorbachev at eighty

Archie Brown | 28 February 2011 |
tags: Communism, history
On Wednesday, the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, celebrates his 80th birthday. A leading British scholar salutes a man who changed Russia and the world for the better.


History lessons from Hollywood

Michael Kirke | 22 February 2011 |
tags: history, Hollywood, religion
Two films reimagining history -- one about the Gulag, the other about a saint - show how much good Hollywood could do.


Africans puzzled by Western attacks on faith

Martyn Drakard | 11 January 2011 |
tags: Africa, Christianity, history, religion
Africans cannot understand why Christians in the Christian West should be persecuted for expressing their faith in public.


Hugh Trevor-Roper

Francis Phillips | 02 August 2010 |
tags: biography, history
The famous Oxford historian was brilliant but bedeviled by the emotional deprivation of his childhood.


Bearing the burden of the past

Michael Casey | 25 July 2010 |
tags: genocide, history, responsibility
We were not actors in wrongs committed by our ancestors. But don’t we have some sort of responsibility for them?


Robin Hood

William Park | 26 May 2010 |
tags: films, history, Robin Hood
Ridley Scott's reworking of the story of Robin Hood is not existentially serious or historically accurate, but the battle scenes are terrific.


Choose Your Weapons

Francis Phillips | 02 May 2010 |
tags: foreign policy, history
A study of British foreign secretaries over two centuries raises perennial questions about international relations.


Lest we forget: 17 April 1975

Var Hong Ashe | 17 April 2010 |
tags: Cambodia, Communism, history
On this day 35 years ago, the Khmer Rouge marched into Phnom Penh.


Historic evidence for Christ

Michael Coren | 31 March 2010 |
tags: Easter, history, Jesus
Forget Dawkins and Hitchens. Listen to Josephus and Tacitus.


The English Marriage

Francis Phillips | 16 March 2010 |
tags: history, marriage, UK
A spirited gallop through several hundred years of love, money and adultery.


Let’s have done with the ‘Dark Ages’

Joanna Bogle | 29 September 2009 |
tags: Britain, Christianity, history
The glint of gold in some long buried treasure is shedding new light on the culture of ancient Britain.


What is civilization?

Francis Phillips | 24 August 2009 |
tags: culture, history, philosophy, sociology
Everyone is in favour of civilization, but exactly what is it? A British intellectual has taken up the challenge of defining a very slippery concept.


The Wizard of the Nile

Martyn Drakard | 18 June 2008 |
tags: Africa, history
Almost forgotten in the West is a ghastly war in northern Uganda in which thousands have been murdered, raped and enslaved. 


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