History

Now that English Nationalism has been unleashed, Peter Jukes argues that we must all try to restore England's buried civic tolerance and historic diversity.

The International Olympic Committee must learn from its mistake in proceeding with the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany, says CJ Werleman.

Stephen Colegrave delves into the real reasons behind austerity and considers whether it was just a political fallacy.

The violence which erupted in Chile last month has its roots in damaging economic policies introduced by a dictator installed by the US 46 years ago and who was liked by Margaret Thatcher.

In the weeks before the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the BBC’s news team went out of its way to show the world the factual reality of East Germans protesting for a better life. Does it have the same desire now?

Otto English recalls what it was like growing up in a world where the threat of the Cold War loomed large – and the surprise and optimism when, one day, this came to an end.

Even if we could make fitter, cleverer humans, would that make them more valuable people?

A decade ago, the financial crisis presented the most pivotal economic, political and social moment since the fall of the Berlin Wall. We need to examine its effects if we are to learn lessons in Brexit Britain.

CJ Werleman on more worrying developments in the US, where President Donald Trump is spinning his potential impeachment into a 'coup' which will require retaliation.

Insurgency general election campaigns almost invariably succeed on their first attempt, observes Jake Lynch. But there is one example the Labour leader could hope to emulate.

A personal story from Otto English about how the past is far too often sanitised to make people who were never there feel better about their family, our collective past and our country.

Peter Jukes with the historical background to a new Byline Times series on a global phenomenon that best explains Boris Johnson and Donald Trump.

Paddy Briggs looks at the career and restoration of Thatcher's legacy by Tory Brexiteers and asks whether she would agree with them if she was alive today.

Otto English considers how we have entered into an Orwellian world in which Brexit governs all and its supporters attempt to convince us daily that night is day and day is night.

Hardeep Matharu explores a new National Trust project designed to shed light on the colonial roots of country houses and the need for a more honest, less mythical discussion of Britain's past.

Otto English calls time on the eccentric Etonian image of 'Boris' and sees Johnson's antagonism and disdain for Parliament as a dangerous parallel with 1930's Germany.

As cliff-edge Britain searches around for historical analogies to a 'No Deal' Brexit, Arthur Snell discovers an infamous King and his ill-fated adviser are the most telling of all.

Will Cologne's cathedral, which was centuries in the making, ever be considered to be truly 'finished'? Maybe nothing we build ever is.

Mike Stuchbery on how terrible moments of devastation can be overcome with creativity and vision.

Mike Stuchbery on reading one of the first printed bestsellers – a book on how to die properly – from his hospital bed.