As the Royal Military School of Music faces closure, ALWYN TURNER remembers a previous attempt to sell it off. Continue reading
Category Archives: History
Standpipe memories: I wish it could be 1976 again
DAN ATKINSON is bracing himself for a surfeit of political nostalgia. Continue reading
2015 Politician of the Year (dead)
The unexpected return of a lost Labour hero. Continue reading
The curious case of the kidnapped communist
ALWYN TURNER explores the curious incident that befell Harry Pollitt in 1925. Continue reading
‘It was not a happy period’
Is it really deja vu all over again? Some quotes from the Labour Party in the early 1980s. Continue reading
‘The most degrading and bestial business in the world’
Remembrance hasn’t always been a pageant of national unity. ALWYN TURNER reveals how the British state once feared its veterans. Continue reading
