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Hywel Williams

The Huguenots, by Geoffrey Treasure - review

Hywel Williams 24 August 2013 9:00 am

There could be no backsliding while preparing the next plot, murder or battle in the French Wars of Religion, says Hywel Williams

Ghosts of the Teutonic Knights

Hywel Williams 9 July 2011 12:00 am

Do the trees of East Prussia still whisper in German when the wind blows in from the Baltic and across the featureless plain? The Russian poet Joseph Brodsky thought so when he visited in the 1960s.

Pastures new

Hywel Williams 12 March 2011 12:00 am

On 20 September 1949, five days after his election as Chancellor of the newly created German Federal Republic, Konrad Adenauer addressed the Bundestag: ‘Much unhappiness and much damage’, he told the deputies, ‘has been caused by denazification .

Beowulf: a digital hero from England’s lost culture

Hywel Williams 21 November 2007 12:00 am

The 3-D blockbuster will redefine what it is to be English

Democracy can’t compete with the history of kings

Hywel Williams 10 October 2007 4:14 pm

An archaeological site reveals the resilience of monarchy

The Tories will need more national fear to win

Hywel Williams 12 September 2007 5:02 pm

Only national insecurity will swing it for the Conservatives

Please can we have our Enlightenment back?

Hywel Williams 4 July 2007 2:05 pm

Hywel Williams says the faddish atheism of Hitchens and Dawkins is a subplot of the war on terror that misrepresents the true spiritual context of the 18th-century Enlightenment

A Tory–Plaid Cymru pact?

Hywel Williams 25 April 2007 4:10 pm

Liam Byrne says the English must be less apathetic about  the United Kingdom, and about the threat of Scottish independence that looms in next week’s elections

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