History

Former Royal Navy Officer Mark Smith recounts his battles with bureaucrats, naval and civilian, to get a warship-building project through to completion.

Think the Second World War begand in September 1939 with the German invasion of Poland? Think again, it began eight years earlier and four and a half thousand miles away.

Duke Maskell reminds us of the first stage of the African slave trade.

Xandra H on Woke Universities and their distaste for Anglo-Saxon studies.

Contrary to what many think, the Jews have had a continuous presence in the Holy Land for over 3,000 years.

Eighty-four years ago today, on Sunday 15th September 1940, the German Luftwaffe launched its largest and most concentrated attacks against London with the aim of drawing Fighter Command of the Royal Air Force into a battle of annihilation.

Duke Maskell on the decline if the Spectator, circa 2008

A parable of modern times from the 1930s.