The latest outbreak of appalling violence in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, sparked by a near unimaginably brutal terrorist atrocity when Hamas butchers slaughtered 1,300 Israeli citizens, including women, children and even babies, has stunned the world. This massacre has rightly been condemned in Britain by the most senior members of…

As a point of clarification before I begin: I’m not writing this to defend or promote the collection, the two editors or Prof. Schaffer. The former stands well on its own merits and the latter three require absolutely no defence from me as they have nothing to defend. I wrote…

In a recent Spectator article, the writer Samuel Rubinstein takes aim at the popular historian and broadcaster, Dan Snow. Snow had recently been interviewed for an article in the Times in which he had the temerity to acknowledge that he has a elite background. “I am a product of all…

Writing in The Critic, the journalist Charlotte Gill has brewed a storm in a teacup with #twitterstorians. Gill wrote, Some will always say that history can never be 100% accurately represented in art. Sathnam Sanghera recently tweeted “History is argument. Narratives take over from other narratives all the time”, reflecting…

The recent imbroglio regarding the publication of Prince Harry’s autobiography Spare (Penguin, 2023) is a fascinating look into the pit of abject, utter humbug in which the British press currently resides. The Daily Mail, for instance, led with the headline ‘Oh Spare Us’ (having to engage with his tales of…

Over the last few days, Twitter has blown up with allegations that the Princeton-based historian, Kevin M. Kruse is a serial plagiarist. This follows some sleuthing by the economic historian, Phillip W. Magness, who has uncovered several damaging passages in Kruse’s PhD thesis and his book One Nation Under God…

Churchill was fascinated by Ultra Intelligence, but were the staff of Bletchley Park his ‘Geese who laid the golden egg and never cackled’? Prime Minister Winston Churchill visited Bletchley Park, the home of Britain’s Second World War “codebreakers”, on 6 September 1941. This event has gone down as a near…

On 31 August, Nigel Farage took to his show on GBNews, to lambast President Joe Biden and the evacuation of US and other personnel from Afghanistan. In his talk, he made much of the military hardware that has been left behind, now in the arms of the Taliban. Joe Biden…

In recent days, academic twitter, particularly the feeds and timelines of historians, has been abuzz regarding a new group: History Reclaimed. History Reclaimed, a blog created by a handful of historians (as well as other scholars), tells a familiar story. Professional, academic history has been overrun by illiberal, intolerant academics…