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Modern History

A Woman’s Logic

Emmeline Pankhurst recalls how she brought some much-needed reason into the operations at Chorlton workhouse.

Georgian Era

The Temperate Zone

William Pitt complained that European politics offers only a choice of inhospitable extremes.

The First World War

False Unity

The Great War emerged from Germany’s attempt to force unity and purpose onto Europe.

Georgian Era

Raw Haste

The French revolution failed because real liberty cannot be enforced overnight, or indeed enforced at all.

The First World War

The Garden and the Machine

John Buchan compared how the Germans and the British understood their empires, and saw two very different pictures indeed.

The First World War

The Avengers

John Buchan was moved by the way the nations of the British Empire volunteered for service in the Great War.