Operation Stopgap: The First Shot in America’s War on Drugs
David Tuch pinpoints the beginning of the US war on narcoterrorism
Politics
A collection of 15 Posts
Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle
Richard Vinen tells us about his biographical study of 'the last titans'
How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One
Andrew Lambert's new book explores an inspired century of statecraft
Victor Grayson, War, Trauma and Politics with Stephen May
Stephen May engages with one of the great mysteries in British political history
The Day President Kennedy Didn't Die
Brad Meltzer tells us about a failed assassination attempt that very nearly altered the course of history
The 1812 Constitution of Cádiz
Helen Crisp and Jules Stewart take us back to a revolutionary moment in European history
The Fire at the Houses of Parliament
In 1834 the home of British politics was destroyed on a dramatic autumnal night
Samuel Johnson and the Perils of Hope
On the anniversary of Johnson's birth, Peter Moore considers a subject that deeply engaged the great writer.
Entertaining America: the Federal Theatre Project with James Shapiro
The origins of today's Culture Wars can be found in the 1930s, argues James Shapiro
1924: The Death of Lenin
On 21 January 1924, the Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin died. Here's how the news was reported in Britain.
Fire at the Guildhall
Leonora Nattrass takes us back to 18th century Cornwall and a brewing political scandal