The politics of the prehistoric past
Our understanding of the earliest humans is shaped by contemporary beliefs about race, violence and sex.
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The silent stones of Europe’s wars
Eighty years after D-Day, how should Britain remember those who died?
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Roy Jenkins’ unfinished revolution
What Labour can learn from how the “liberal and radical” reformer changed Britain.
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Harold Wilson’s lessons for Labour
Keir Starmer would do well to study Wilson’s programme for national renewal.
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How the National Trust won the war on woke
The charity has outsmarted and outmanoeuvred its critics, who are all too easy to caricature as furious cranks and bigots.
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The wrong side of history
Rishi Sunak has rejected the idea that Britain will be censured by posterity. Yet history is not a moral court
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József Debreczeni’s letter from the land of the dead
A rediscovered memoir from an Auschwitz survivor offers powerful lessons for our own reckonings with the Holocaust.
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What it means to be German
Frank Trentmann’s history reveals how modern Germany found a new moral purpose after the horrors of Nazism.
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