Professor Will Pettigrew has William Pitt, William Wilberforce and Henry Brougham against him
Author - Lawrence Goldman
Cambridge and the Denial of Truth
The death of Jason Arday, the fantasist and plagiarist who became a professor at Cambridge...
The National Trust’s distortion of history at Dyrham Park
The National Trust's depiction of British domestic and colonial history are both found wanting in...
Churchill wasn’t the villain of the Bengal Famine. Japan was.
A National Portrait Gallery installation claims he ‘wilfully’ inflicted mass starvation – this is a...
Why would the Bank of England replace Churchill with a hedgehog...
The Bank of England is proposing to replace the great figures who adorn British banknotes with...
I don’t know what is worse about Zohran Mamdani: his ignorance...
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s call for the Koh-i-Noor diamond restitution exposes deep historical...
‘Redacted’. How Sydney University Library Prevents Free Inquiry
Governor Eyre of Jamaica was one of the most controversial figures in the history of the British...
Reparations for slavery and the abuse of international...
The proposed slavery reparations ICJ case is explored through legal, historical and political...
Did the Empire Pay?
(A version of this article was published in the Daily Telegraph on 20/2/2026) The Old Republican...
Moral and Historical Confusion at the BBC: the 2025 Reith...
The recent 2025 BBC Reith Lectures were given by a Dutch historian, Rutger Bregman, who called for...
