Jeremy Corbyn is taking Labour back to the 1640s
Jeremy Corbyn will probably enjoy this book — which doesn’t mean you won’t. Asked to name the historical figure he…
Young Henry – England’s lost king
It is one of the great set-pieces of high drama in English history. The king, shamed by his part in…
The modern Olympics have always been a fiasco
There’s nothing new about lying and cheating at the Olympics. Scandal has dogged the Games for well over a century, says David Horspool
The Easter Rising’s road to hell — paved with good intentions
While reading this book in a London café, I was politely buttonholed by an Irishman: ‘Sorry to disturb you, but…
The Peasants’ Revolt — such a thrilling moment in English history — has eluded novelists in the past
Considering that it was, as Melvyn Bragg rightly puts it, ‘the biggest popular uprising ever experienced in England’, the Peasants’…
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A match to make you see the point of football
Ready to rebel? You are part of a glorious tradition
Angry disenchantment with the political and financial establishment has rarely been deeper. David Horspool says that the English rebel — culturally affronted rather than ideologically left-wing — is an honourable archetype of our nation’s history
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