The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Voices of History: Speeches that Changed the World As we have discovered in January 2020, words matter. They matter even more when spoken by powerful men and women. I write this in the context of the dying days of Donald Trump’s presidency, when his words have incited...
There are iconic images of the end of the Second World War: the Soviet army reclaiming the Reichstag; jubilant sailors embracing their girls; women paraded semi-naked, heads shaved, a placard of shame around their necks. These were the ‘horizontal collaborators,’ the...
What did the Romans ever do for us? As I write this, we are witnessing the chaotic withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan. History will judge whether this 20 year occupation served a purpose for either side. Did the suppression of the Taliban safeguard the West...
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In short, Operation Mincemeat is a musical about the great deception by the Allies in WW2 to convince the Germans that British and American forces would land in Sardinia rather than Sicily, when advancing on Italy. The act of misdirection was achieved through the...
All Empires Are Not Alike Look at the reverse of a penny of George the Sixth, father of the present British monarch, and around his head are the words GEORGIUS VI D:G:BR:OMN:REX F.D: IND: IMP. On the other side is Britannia, seated with an oval shield and a spear,...
Keith Lowe, a prominent author of works on the Second World War, examines nations’ architectural remembrances of the conflict in this timely book. Though the 'Rhodes Must Fall Campaign' gained immense traction last summer, and over the past few years Poland has...
From Keith Lowe, author of Prisoners of History Over the past year there has been a great deal of controversy about statues and other monuments. Why do you think we have been getting so emotional about them? Have monuments always been this controversial? No, monuments...
The corpse was frozen and bleached by the sun. It lay face down in the snow, fully extended and pointing uphill. The upper body was welded to the scree with ice. The arms, still muscular, were outstretched above the head. Mountaineer George Mallory had last been...
