16 April 2007 | spiked

Remembering the Moscow Trials

Amid today's craze for anniversaries, there's one episode in history that nobody – especially on the left – wants to talk about

13 February 2007 | Spiked

War and deception in the Netherlands

Black Book, Paul Verhoeven’s thriller about the Dutch Resistance to Nazi rule, is a cracking movie – and it raises important questions, too

10 November 2006 | Radio 3 Free Thinking festival

It's not where you come from, it's where you're going that matters

Matthew Sweet introduces and Loyd Grossman chairs a four-way debate on history, held in Liverpool with author Kenan Malik, historian Juliet Gardiner and novelist Howard Jacobson

4 November 2006 | Radio 4 – the Today programme

Is genealogy one more aspect of today's 'bottom up' democratising movements?

Debate with historian Juliet Gardiner on family trees, roots and all that

19 August 2006 | From the archives: the next step, August 1986

The Moscow Trials, August 1936

Seventy years ago this week, radios all over the world broadcast the sound of fallen Bolshevik Party leaders confessing, at a packed, dingy court in the capital of the Soviet Union, to crimes they had never committed 48kB

12 June 2006 | From the Archives: The Listener, 12 June 1986

Naval supremacy still rules the world

From the North Sea to Ronald Reagan's 600-ship navy, it was the same story: who controlled the seas, controlled the Earth 36kB

30 March 2006 | exclusive to Woudhuysen.com

Computer games and sex difference

This paper looks at some of the intellectual history that surrounds the politics of difference between men and women and asks four questions:

1. Are the differences between men and women around the making and use of computer games to do with culture, or with biology?
2. Are occupational segregation and the paucity of female games programming jobs part of a wider problem of discrimination in engineering, computer science and the IT industry?
3. Will games only fully appeal to women if women programme them?
4. Is the playing of game products by women unequivocally a Good Thing?

21 October 2005 | spiked

All's quiet on the Trafalgar front

Why the British elite won't utter the v-word on the bicentennial of Nelson's battle.

8 February 2005 | spiked

Dresden: Don't apologise - understand

The debate surrounding the sixtieth anniversary of the firestorming of Dresden shows how sober analysis of history is being distorted by angst about the world today

December 1989 | Blueprint

The land of iced water

Review of Arthur J Pulos, The American Design Adventure, 1940-1975, 1988

25 November 1988 | Campaign

What makes Fiat the big draw

Fiat's posters between the wars remain a marvel to behold 36kB

March 1988 | Blueprint

Looking forward to the 1960s

Caught between celebrations and lamentations of the 20th anniversary of the student explosions of May 1968, we have lost sight of the real significance of the 1960s and their lessons for the unrevolutionary present

29 May 1987 | New Society

Design and decline

Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, released in May 1967, was part of an explosion in international visual awareness. What are the lessons of the design boom of the 1960s? 44kB

14 December 1985 | The Economist

America the beautiful?

In the mid 1980s, after a long hibernation, American industrial design began to stir again

August 1985 | Design

Britain’s vital statistics

Review of Social Trends, 1985