From the Bullingdon Club to the International Brigade – PAUL SAFFER on a coxless pair. Continue reading
Category Archives: History
Obscure Olympians 5: 3rd Earl of Kimberley
PAUL SAFFER on the polo-playing missing link between Bertie Wooster and Winston Churchill. Continue reading
Labour leadership elections: Part 3
ALWYN TURNER on 1992-2007, the days when Labour leader and prime minister weren’t mutually exclusive jobs. Continue reading
Obscure Olympians 4: Arnold Jackson
PAUL SAFFER on a war hero, Versailles negotiator and founder of the Kentucky Derby, who also won 1500m gold. Continue reading
Obscure Olympians 3: City of London Police
PAUL SAFFER celebrates a team of flat-footed Edwardian tuggers. Continue reading
Obscure Olympians 2: CBK Beachcroft
Continuing his salute to forgotten British Olympic heroes, PAUL SAFFER remembers a cricketing comedian. Continue reading
Labour leadership elections: Part 2
Continuing ALWYN TURNER’s history of the post-war Labour Party, seen through leadership elections past (1976-88). Continue reading
Obscure Olympians 1: Launceston Elliot
In the first of a new series, PAUL SAFFER salutes a weightlifting, rope-climbing, sprinting holder of the British discus record. Continue reading
Labour leadership elections: Part 1
ALWYN TURNER’s history of the post-war Labour Party, seen through the ghosts of leadership elections past 1955-63. Continue reading
After the Referendum: a long month in politics
ALWYN TURNER’s instant history of the thirty days that followed the referendum vote. Continue reading
Off the shelf: The Spy With 29 Names
DAN ATKINSON on our romantic attachment to the small-is-beautiful view of Britain’s war effort. Continue reading
‘A silent majority behind their lace curtains’
The coming to power of Edward Heath. Continue reading
