Telegrams are longer articles with an ‘applied’ historical dimension of approximately 1,500 words
PROF BRENDAN SIMMS looks at the eightieth anniversary of the evacuation at Dunkirk, comparing Britain’s situation in 1940 with 2020
PROF GERHARD L WEINBERG discusses the end of the Second World War in Europe
DR SIMON WALDMAN looks back at the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980 and assesses subsequent relations between Britain and the Islamic Republic
DR CHRIS NEWTON assesses the Allied landing at Anzac Cove in Galipolli during the First World War on 25th April 1915
DR ALEXANDER CLARKE assesses the long-term implications of the Asama Maru Incident of 21st January 1940, when a British cruiser intercepted German merchant seamen on a Japanese ocean liner
TOBIAS CREMER looks at the attempts of Britain and Germany to draw the Middle East into their geostrategic competition at the turn of the twentieth century
PROF ANDREW LAMBERT explains the reasons behind the Royal Navy’s victory over the French Navy during the Battle of Quiberon Bay, before linking Britain’s success to its dynamic and inclusive political culture
ELOISE DAVIES argues that it might be easier to navigate the politics of Brexit by better understanding British political and economic ideas surrounding liberty and sovereignty in the eighteenth century
DR ANDREW THOMPSON argues that Britain needs to study and understand its history in relation to both sides of the Atlantic Ocean if it is to prosper in the twenty-first century
DR PHILIP HITCHINGS assesses Britain’s past engagement with the Holy Roman Empire, before arguing that it might provide inspiration for the development of a new British continental strategy towards the European Union