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Injustice & The Casting of Blame in History: The Melville...
Is it too much to hope that the Edinburgh Review Group might revise their explanatory plaque to...
Ideas
Remembering Our Future. History as a Cordial for Drooping...
The past cannot be changed but we are responsible for how we remember it. What we extract and carry...
Reviews
The History Reclaimed Book of the Year Prize 2022
We want to encourage and recognize the best historical writing, based on serious research but with...
Institutions
Et tu Cantabrigia? The Cambridge Faculty of Classics Capitulates...
There has been significant media coverage of the Cambridge Faculty of Classics in the past week...
Events
A “Genocide” without victims? Is the latest “woke” offensive...
Readers of HR will be aware of the huge impact in Canada of accusations that mass deaths of...
Empires
In defence of colonialism: the case of Papua New Guinea
Modern liberals, so loud in their condemnation of colonialism, for the most part have little or no...
Slavery
Codrington at All Souls – the Awakening of the Anglican...
Campaigns for the “decolonisation” of British historiography have at least one positive consequence...
Racism
History in the United States: “The 1619 Project and Living in...
The controversy over the New York Times's ‘1619 Project ’ is the latest in a set of recurring...
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The Battle for Britain’s Cultural Identity: Against the New Normal
History reclaimed on the other side of the river: a case study from central Africa
Saving Africa’s history from the enormous condescension of the Woke brigades
Considerations on the Colston statue
A Reading List for a Time of Confusion
Reclaiming history in Northern Ireland
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