History

A Man of Many Parts

A brilliant historian and teacher who kept faith with the republic

Ideas

Hail Ruritania!

A kingdom’s progress: from Duck Soup to Princess Diana

World History

Scholarship, snobbery, skulduggery

Sir John Harold Plumb was a prodigious historian and journalist. a tireless networker, a professor, master of Christ’s College, a member of the British Wine…

World History

What Was Lost

‘Declinist’ accounts of English history are not always consistent, but the outlines are clear: a once ‘organic’ community succumbed to commerce, scientific rationalism and, most…

Irish History

Northern Star

Samuel Neilson was a principal in the founding of the first, open society of the United Irishmen and an architect of the underground movement and…

World History

Batting for the Other Side

The Establishment recruited its members from Eton, Harrow and Winchester and from the ancient universities, Oxford and Cambridge. Its high-flyers staffed the Foreign Office, royal…

Irish History

The Big Smoke

A comprehensive new study of Ireland’s capital bridges social and cultural, political, economic, educational, administrative, demographic, maritime, infrastructural and architectural histories of the city and…

Irish History

Who Fears to Speak of ’99?

What would have happened if General Cornwallis had been sent to Ireland a year earlier? Certainly repression would have been less, though perhaps the revolution…