Working out isn’t so new after all
From religion to war, exercise over the centuries has been shaped by many influences
History
Sunday
Monday
Writing and the conservative impulse
All writers are, in a certain sense, conservative
Monday
The Tudor roots of wokecraft
The Reformation was a top-down affair, an agenda imposed by a cultural and political elite
Saturday
Adieu, Teddy Roosevelt
It’s open season on the past
Thursday
Have Americans got George III all wrong?
George III was a model monarch, whose reputation finally deserves rehabilitation a quarter of a millennium later
Monday
All Greek to us
The Greeks by Roderick Beaton and The Greek Revolution by Mark Mazower reviewed
Monday
Joe Biden’s history tour from hell
From 1970s gas lines to the 1918 pandemic, where will the President take us next?
Thursday
An orange or an egg? Determining the shape of the world
Latitude: The True Story of the World’s First Scientific Expedition by Nicholas Crane reviewed
Saturday
What high-school history books teach about 9/11
Most portray the attacks as just something that happened
Tuesday
Spells and bindings
The Madman’s Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History by Edward Brooke-Hitching reviewed
Monday
COVID-19 vs the American spirit of resistance
Americans are polarized in their attitudes to risk
Tuesday
The 1619 Project is the 2019 Project — and the 2020 Project
The New York Times is stoking the woke with a narrative of shame
Tuesday
Woke history is making big inroads in America’s high schools
The cleansing power of ethnic studies
Monday
Will history survive?
The ongoing monument controversy shows the susceptibility of ‘liberating tolerance’ to fanaticism
Thursday
A date with Venus in Tahiti
Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World reviewed
Thursday
The artist who breathes Technicolor life into historic photographs
‘My goal is to build a bridge between the present and the past.’
Thursday
Russia’s obsession with securing a warm-water port changed the history of Central Asia
In the 13th century, having overrun and terrorised Europe as far as Budapest, and in the process possibly bringing with them the flea which caused the Black Death, the heirs to Genghis Khan and the Golden Horde had also conquered territory to the east as far as the Korean peninsular. The assiduous Swiss scholar and … Read more
