History & Identity

Village Pounds: How England Governed Local Life

The village pound was built to hold stray animals. It also tells us something about local authority, mutual obligation and

There is a simple fact that ought not to be controversial. The UK government’s own official ethnicity classifications place “English,

The leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have met and declared that constitutional change is coming. They say their

People talk like this is the end of England. Every bad election, every new scandal, every fresh betrayal from Westminster

There’s a story about England and slavery that almost nobody tells honestly. You get two versions shoved at you. The

The powerful political society you’ve never heard of: the Fabians If you follow English politics, you’ve probably heard endless arguments

For years, the public has been told not to believe what they can plainly see. If they notice that the

There is a question that sits at the heart of post-war English history, and it has never been properly answered:

The Forgotten Story of English Slaves Most people in England know something about the Atlantic slave trade and enslaved Africans

Every St George’s Day the same idiots show up. You know exactly who I mean. The people who only mention