15 h. ago RIOTS AND REBELS by Nick Rennison: Why the English LOVE revolting

From killing a king to the poll tax riots, history has been forged by protest. But a new book argues our taste for insurrection is dangerous, deadly and often utterly pointless...

Politics

5 d. ago Ndiaye double gives Everton win over Southampton in Goodison Park finale

When the Goodison Park history books are printed, they will show Iliman Ndiaye scored the final two Premier League goals at the grand old stadium. It was not an afternoon about the actual football as Goodison said goodbye to men’s football, mercifully, for the home support, with a simple win for Everton over Southampton.No one cared about the quality on show, which was a relief as the match felt like a sideshow. Ndiaye lit it up, however. The forward was the difference, ensuring the final memories for those who stayed faithful to Everton through the thick and often thin in recent years were rewarded with a fitting end. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Now woke history book promoted to schools claims Stonehenge was built by black people... while Waterloo and Trafalgar go untaught

A Policy Exchange investigation has warned that schools have 'taken it too far' as they adapt history curriculums in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests.

Culture

6 d. ago Crystal Palace must seize Wembley moment with FA Cup final triumph to enter history books

Oliver Glasner’s side would guarantee a place in club folklore for eternity if they toppled Manchester City to win the club’s first-ever major trophy

Culture

7 d. ago STEPHEN GLOVER: As No10 gears up for the Surrender Summit with Brussels, this is how Britain is being eased back into the maw of the EU by determined and deluded Rejoiner Starmer

Will the history books conclude that this was the day when Sir Keir Starmer began to hand back the independence for which the British people voted nearly nine years ago?

Politics

7 d. ago MFI is back from the dead: Furniture company that collapsed two decades ago will be resurrected after Victorian Plumbing made £3million swoop

A homeware retail giant that seemed consigned to the history books looks like making a comeback after a £3million swoop by new investors.

Economics

8 d. ago Horace by Peter Stothard: Plump, playboy poet who was in love with wine and the sunshine

Peter Stothard's new book enlightens us on the life and relationships of Rome's most accessible and promiscuous poet.

Politics

8 d. ago Jamie Vardy handed EARLY EXIT from Leicester City as club make bizarre announcement about his 'last game'

The striker has etched his name into the history books after over a decade of unprecedented success at the Midlands club, with Vardy helping Leicester win their first ever Premier League title and FA Cup.

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8 d. ago Jill Biden shut down conversations on Joe's mental decline and became 'one of the most powerful first ladies in history' running the White House behind the scenes, new book claims

In a jaw-dropping new expose, Original Sin lifts the lid on what insiders claim is the White House's deepest secret - Jill Biden's iron grip on power and the lengths she went to protect her husband.

Events

2 w. ago Ange Postecoglou stays true to Tottenham promise as Celtic curse buried and immortality on the horizon

The Spurs boss is just 90 minutes away from etching his name into the history books

Politics

2 w. ago These activists are ‘flooding the zone with Black history’ to protest Trump’s attacks on DEI

The Freedom to Learn campaign included panels and coffee meetups and will end Saturday with a protest and prayerA coalition of civil rights groups have launched a weeklong initiative to condemn Donald Trump’s attacks on Black history, including recent executive orders targeting the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington DC.The national Freedom to Learn campaign is being led by the African American Policy Forum (AAPF), a social justice thinktank co-founded by the law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw. Crenshaw is a leading expert on critical race theory (CRT), a framework used to analyze racism’s structural impact. She has fought against book bans, restraints on racial history teaching and other anti-DEI efforts since the beginning of the Republican-led campaign against CRT in 2020. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago These activists are ‘flooding the zone with Black history’ to protest against Trump’s attacks on DEI

The Freedom to Learn campaign included panels and coffee meetups and will end Saturday with a rally and prayerA coalition of civil rights groups have launched a weeklong initiative to condemn Donald Trump’s attacks on Black history, including recent executive orders targeting the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington DC.The national Freedom to Learn campaign is being led by the African American Policy Forum (AAPF), a social justice thinktank co-founded by the law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw. Crenshaw is a leading expert on critical race theory (CRT), a framework used to analyze racism’s structural impact. She has fought against book bans, restraints on racial history teaching and other anti-DEI efforts since the beginning of the Republican-led campaign against CRT in 2020. Continue reading...

Events

2 w. ago Love endures all, including slavery and the pandemic. I wanted to show how

In early 2020, separated from my family and friends during the pandemic, I made up my mind to write a love storyIn early 2020, I made up my mind that I wanted to write a love story. Separated from my family and friends during the height of the pandemic and emotionally raw from living alone, I wanted to write something where I already knew the ending from the beginning: the characters would win. How they got there would be the most difficult part. I was inspired by the oeuvres of Toni Morrison and Gabriel García Márquez, and I wanted my fourth book to be vast in scope, rich in history and intertwined with familial lineages. But the work would demand plot development as well as historical research and I needed someone to help me.I began interviewing assistants and came across a fellow Black female Harlemite from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Immediately, we clicked over a video chat and soon after, she emailed me a document she said I just had to see. The attachm...

Events

3 w. ago Question 7 by Richard Flanagan audiobook review – a bold memoir of life and near

History and autobiography are brilliantly intertwined as the Booker-winning author explores the choices and chance connections that shape our existenceAt the start of this boldly experimental memoir, the Booker prize-winning author Richard Flanagan visits the site of a Japanese labour camp where his late father was interned during the second world war and where he ends up awkwardly having his photo taken with a former guard, Mr Sato. The war ended weeks after the US launched an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing 60,000 people in less than a minute. That bomb also led to Flanagan’s father, then days from death, being freed, which in turn allowed him to father a child who would grow up to become a writer. “How many people need to die in order that you might read this book?” Flanagan asks.Question 7, named after a riddle posed by Chekhov, is a book about the connections and choices that shape our lives, for better or worse. Flanagan is the narrator, his reading by turns mournful, reflec...

Politics

4 w. ago As Rome gears up for spectacle of Pope Francis’s funeral, mourners hail his humility

Sadness at pope’s passing is tinged with giddiness at holding world’s gaze with a pageant for the agesBeneath the basilica’s soaring Renaissance dome, the body in the coffin looked unexpectedly small, even shrunken, and for those who had come to say goodbye that somehow felt apt. Francis was pope but he was still, amid all the pomp and circumstance, just a man.His predecessors occupied plinths and alcoves around St Peter’s, figures of stone and marble with names etched in history books, while Jorge Mario Bergoglio lay in his wooden box, by common consent among mourners, a good man who did his best. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Is Prince Harry a 'spare part' in his marriage to Meghan Markle? Royal experts question why the Duke took a backseat at the Time 100 Summit on PALACE CONFIDENTIAL

Harry was so fed up with playing second fiddle to his brother William, that he titled his book Spare. But experts have questioned if history is repeating itself in his marriage to Meghan Markle.

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