History

Otto English on why the Brexit Party MEPs' decision to turn their backs on the EU's anthem is more worrying than just being a mere stunt.

As hustings are held throughout the country as part of that morbidly parochial spectacle that is the Tory leadership contest, the Count of the Saxon shore remembers the internationalism that was always part of the regional nature of English identity.

The Count of the Saxon Shore on the Anglo-Saxon arguments about independence and internationalism over a religious customs union with Europe.

Mike Stuchbery sheds some light on the heated debate ignited by New York congresswoman Alexandra-Cortez

Whenever Mike Stuchbery travels to Stuttgart he is reminded that the courage to resist authoritarianism and tyranny isn't restricted to a particular kind of individual and here manifests itself in the form of a bookish single mother.

Otto English compares the reality of war and the brotherhood through trauma of WW2 veterans with the Victor comic book versions of history.

Mike Stuchbery on a renaissance artist who overcame the predatory sexism of her day and survives as an emblem of feminist persistence.

The Count of the Saxon Shore on why 'the North Remembers'. It was the original source of a progressive, articulate English identity.

Mike Stuchbery recalls a cacophony of people through time, who came to London and made it what it is today.

Built by Romans, shunned by the Anglo Saxons, renewed by the Normans, Britain's great capital has survived adversity through diversity.

Adi MacArtney on the debate in British institutions about how to account for their colonial past.

Mike Stuchbery on another stirring story from our European past that shows how small actions can have big consequences.

The Count of the Saxon explains the fluidity of Saxon religious belief as new archaeological discoveries suggest the East Saxons converted to Christianity, and back to Paganism again.

'A Plague Tale: Innocence’ is a game about change. True to the alchemical concepts upon which much of the plot rests, the game represents an arc of corruption, distillation, purification and sublimation.

John Mitchinson recounts the life of Daniel Defoe, the Patron Saint of Freelancers and Master of Aliases, who hustled journalism into existence three hundred years ago.

When Far Right and populist figures such as Hungary's Viktor Orban talk about a 'crusade’ to defend 'Christendom’ - this should ring some very shrill alarm bells.

The 2nd Century tombstone near Hadrian's Wall tells a story as exotic as anything out of Game of Thrones, the epic love story of a woman from Hertfordshire and her partner from Syria.

The story of the Beguines is important to remember in a time of increasing social fracturing.

Mike Stuchbery argues that Petrarch's passion for his muse Laura triggered the Renaissance imagination and paved the way for modernity.

The Count of the Saxon recalls the first book to record the timeless British refrain - 'things aren't what they used to be'.