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There is a fresh wind blowing among historians. In the universities, the writing of increasingly recondite monographs, suitably stuffed with the jargon of the

Peace and sound money are the two necessary and sufficient requisites for prosperity. This makes Sir Robert Peel a great hero of Conservative MP

Few events have so fascinated historians as the French Revolution. How could such a momentous and frightening experience, leading to the public execution of

Roy Jenkins, an only child from the valleys, was born into the socialist purple. That is, his father Arthur, a miners’ agent, was sentenced

"I cannot endure to read a line of poetry: I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it

What is called “modern” philosophy is dated as beginning with Descartes in the 17th century. Space, time, God, the world, my body, everything I

The Lasker-Capablanca showdown of 1914