With friends like these . . .
John Charmley argues that Britain failed to perceive the dangers in its 'special relationship' with the US. Between 1940 and 1957 successive British governments imagined that they could use American...
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Mourning Britain's new dawn
John Ramsden suggests that the postwar era in Britain really came to an end with the death of Churchill in January 1965. With the passage of time, "post-war" has become more or less synonymous with "...
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Slow on the uptake
Eric Roll lists the errors in Britain's postwar economic policy. First one cautionary remark: hindsight can show what should not have been done and what should have been done; but it does not...
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History as it is bought
John Campbell argues that academics should value the popular appeal of biography. Political biography, as a form of history, comes in for a lot of criticism these days. But serious questions are...
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Learning to love biographers
Ben Pimlott stands up for a derided bunch of individuals. A colleague recently told me a story that could have been meant to put me my place. He had been talking over the brandy at an international...
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Silence greets Leviathan
As the state swelled in the 1940s, political theory retreated into the shadows. Jose Harris explains why. A striking feature of political life in Britain from the mid-17th to the early 20th century...
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Safety pins for a safety net
Nicholas Timmins describes the ever-troubled history of the country's welfare state. "It is the same story . . . in every social service. there is greater demand. . . because the standards of the...
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Summer semester pilots get Pounds 9 million
After years of debate on the academic year, pilot summer extension programmes are to begin in 1996. The Higher Education Funding Council for England agreed at a meeting this week to allot Pounds 9...
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Radical economists left out in the cold
Non-mainstream economists are being marginalised by research assessment, a new survey of the subject in universities argues. The report, The Academic Labour Process and the Research Assessment...
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Internet News
The THES Internet Service includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper and all our advertisements, updated on the Tuesday before publication of the paper. The service is availableon the...
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Britain 1945-95
(Photograph) - In at Number Ten: Since 1945 ten prime ministers have come and nine gone, yet serious historical study of "the twilight years" has only recently been attempted by academics. Next week...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an 18th-century work that is part novel, part educational treatise: "My master, congratulate your son; he hopes soon to have the honour of being a father. What a...
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Speaking Volumes: Return to Camelot
Jeffrey Richards on Mark Girouard's Return to Camelot . Although books are now a central and indispensable part of my life, I grew up like many of my generation with films. It was films that shaped...
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A hybrid in full blossom
Anglo-Irish
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A pox on the Englishman
Syphilis in Shakespeare's England