The new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, entitled 'Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution...
Author - Robert Tombs
The French navy is full of ships named after men who beat us...
The Royal Navy, which has very few ships to name these days, has decided that to call its new...
If Oxfam is right about Empire, then where is my $1 million?
A new report from Oxfam calculates that Britain owes astronomical sums to India. Robert Tombs does...
Labour must not leave our children ignorant about Britain’s past...
Robert Tombs explains the background to the new government’s curriculum review and sets out his...
The Home Office and Distortions of History
The Home Office has been teaching compulsory courses in British History to its civil servants...
Our Prime Minister’s Historical Illiteracy
Our new prime minister has been removing portraits from the walls of 10 Downing Street. Robert...
Violent disorder in perspective
Robert Tombs provides historical context for the recent disorders on British streets following the...
Welsh Labour is writing the white working class out of history
Welsh coal miners, who sweated and sometimes died down the pits, deserve better than to be...
The Church of England’s Historic Links to the Transatlantic...
The Church Commissioners have pledged £100 million over nine years in reparation for what are...
Has the C of E got its Reparations Bill all wrong?
Following an inquiry undertaken by accountants into investments made by the Church of England which...
