By the fourth festive season into the war, rationing was biting – but good news from the front and the generosity of US soldiers helped keep morale buoyant.
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Many still speculate about what George Canning would have achieved had he not died 119 days into his premiership.
Western fashion, laundering and style reflected the racialized politics dramatically shaped by profound global transformations bound up with slavery, colonialism and modernization.
A cautionary tale for the UK press .
A scholar of British history explains how the ornate church and its significance to the monarchy have changed over centuries.
Other queens were just teenagers when they ascended the throne.
Britain has gone through unimaginable change culturally and politically during Elizabeth’s 70-year reign.
Tariq Ali’s scathing new book assessing Winston Churchill’s life and legacy paints him as a racist opportunist but overstates Churchill’s enduring influence on politics today.
Reagan was the first US president to address the UK parliament. What he said still carries weight for Anglo-American relations decades on.
Scrapbooks on the Royal Family are more meaningful objects for our families, and our own communities, than we might first expect.
Understanding how our ancestors may have benefited from industrialisation and colonialism could help us become more climate-friendly citizens.
From the tax we pay to the wine we drink, many policies in Britain today have their roots in imperialism.
Warring countries have ben imposing sanctions on their enemies for hundreds of years. They have met with mixed success.
Opposition to the controversial law reflected the British national character, reminiscent of comedies like the Carry On films.
Even after the notorious Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938, some headmasters thought pupil exchanges with Nazi Germany were a good idea.
Black British women have been staging plays in recent years about Britain’s role in slavery, a history the country is too eager to forget.
Abolition in the UK tends to focus on the work of Yorkshireman William Wilberforce but there were many Black abolitionists whose tireless work has been forgotten.
New analysis of Anglo-Saxon skulls suggests that being an Anglo-Saxon was a matter of language and culture, and not genetics.
The excesses of political leaders have always needed checking.
The Post’s editor, Arthur Mann, withstood extreme pressure to fall in with orthodox political thinking over appeasement with Nazi Germany.
Principais colaboradores
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Principal of South College, Durham University
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British Politics Lecturer, University of Liverpool
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Emeritus Professor of Roman Archaeology, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in History, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History, Newcastle University
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Professor of History, The Open University
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Lecturer in Intelligence and Security Studies, Brunel University London
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Senior Lecturer in History, CQUniversity Australia
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Emeritus Professor of Women's and Gender History, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Political History, University of Nottingham
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Lecturer in the Department of History, Durham University
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Honorary Professorial Fellow, The University of Edinburgh
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Head, Public Engagement, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney
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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University
