Tory and Labour departures in the aftermath of the 1992 election. Continue reading
Category Archives: History
‘Can Labour ever win?’ The 1992 election – Part 1
ALWYN TURNER tells the story of the 1992 general election. Continue reading
‘We have a dream’: The best of Neil Kinnock
The wit and the wisdom (mostly the wisdom) of Neil Kinnock. Continue reading
Trumping the Beaver
With a tycoon in the White House, ROGER HERMISTON revisits a time when another businessman helped save Britain. Continue reading
2016 Politician of the Year (dead)
The man we should all have been talking about in 2016. Continue reading
The greatest living Englishmen
From Wilkie Collins to Cecil Rhodes, the votes are in from our Victorian juries. Continue reading
The Englishman who took his minstrels to America
ALWYN TURNER remembers Sam Hague, 19th-century Yorkshire clog-dancer turned minstrel impresario. Continue reading
‘A wreath of poppies’
ALWYN TURNER on the early days of the British Legion’s Poppy. Continue reading
Remember remember (1916)
Commemorating Guy Fawkes night in the year of the Somme. Continue reading
Post #200: The liberty of the press
A robust defence of free speech from 200 years ago. Continue reading
Aberfan: ‘It had fallen…’
Remembering the Aberfan disaster in 1966, an extract from JOHN SUMMERS’s novel The Disaster. Continue reading
‘Seagrove will run’: The Oympian I knew
He won Olympic medals, helped create the Commonwealth Games and, er, taught ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading
