[PDF file]: Apocryphilia Simon Matthews Our Island S tory Before the teaching of history to children in this country descended to its current formula of dinosaurs + Romans + Henry VIII + Hitler (with a side helping of slavery) the past was taught in a rather different way. Many who were at primary school pre-1980 will […]
[PDF file]: […] the Seventies Andy Beckett London: Faber and Faber, 2009, £20.00 Strange Days Indeed Francis Wheen London: Fourth Estate, 2009, £18.99 Robin Ramsay Decadeitis, the division of his tory into decades for media marketing purposes – ‘roaring twenties’, ‘swinging sixties’ – irritates serious historians; but in the case of the 1970s it does make a […]
[PDF file]: […] much of Haseler’s ground is covered in a rather less hectoring manner. The contributors range from the Archbishop himself to Zac Goldsmith, with stimulating thoughts from ‘Red Tory’ Philip Blond, Financial Services Authority general counsel Andrew Whittaker, and theology student turned investment banker John Reynolds. The contributions from New Labour familiars Jon Cruddas and […]
[PDF file]: […] among the allegations and rumours, thus far I have avoided trying to make sense of the Kincora scandal’s place in the Elm House-Savile-paedos-in-high-places thicket. However one s tory caught my eye. In the Daily Express (12 April) James Fielding began his story, headlined ‘MI6 covered up historic child sex abuse ring discovered during surveillance […]
[PDF file]: […] in a collection of his essays, Unbecoming American: A War Memoir, available from Amazon.1 About the collection he writes: The context of these essays, the cultural his tory of the United States, is also one of a country that has been at war for most of its history. This is a war memoir, but […]
[PDF file]: […] Goebbels as a very modern marketing innovator whose services would be in high demand today. From deranged men to mad men? If there’s a lesson from his tory about how to sell something, even something as odious as a nasty political creed, why not stoop to learn from it? That thought is arresting, since […]
