Lessons of History for Political Leaders
September 29, 2015
Successful political leadership has been a key issue in British politics recently, Richard Gaunt writes. Three of the four main political parties in Britain (Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish Nationalists) have elected new leaders over the course of the past twelve months. Today, the security of tenure of Britain’s political leaders has more …
Visions of Peace on the Eve of the Great War
September 17, 2015
As commemorations marking the centenary of the First World War continue, debates concerning the conflict’s origins have assumed a renewed relevance, Dan Hucker writes. Consensus regarding the causes of war remains elusive but a prevailing view of the pre-1914 era as one animated chiefly by militarism, patriotism, and parochial nationalism remains commonplace. In a recent …
The Pirate Myth: Genealogies of an Imperial concept
September 9, 2015
The English pirate Edward Teach (c 1680-1718, pictured), “assumed the Cognomen of Black-beard, from that large Quantity of Hair, which, like a frightful Meteor, covered his whole Face, and frightened America more than any Comet that has appeared there a long Time” (Charles Johnson, A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most …
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