Why the Rosetta Stone shouldn’t be returned to Egypt
The Rosetta Stone is said to be the most visited object in the British Museum. By and large the most…
Courage on the high seas
The Shetland Islands and the Faroes may seem to be somewhere out there in distant waters, marginal and in the…
The culture wars have crept into Oxbridge admissions
The negative discrimination of Oxbridge admissions
Bitter harvest – how Ukraine’s wheat has always been coveted
Publishers love books with ambitious subtitles such as ‘How Bubblegum Made the Modern World’, and this one’s, about American wheat…
Were old children’s history books racist?
Are children’s history books racist?
Masters of the opium trade: the fabulous wealth of the Sassoons
David Abulafia admires the shrewdness, generosity and panache of the Sassoons over many generations
Why does Priyamvada Gopal find ‘eloquence’ troubling?
Why should anyone feel insulted when they are described as ‘eloquent’? Priyamvada Gopal, professor of post-colonial studies at Cambridge University, felt…
Rhodes, Columbus and the next heritage battle
On 12 October this year, Columbus Day, a statue of the Italian in Belgrave Square was vandalised by activists from…
What’s behind Cambridge’s anonymous reporting system?
What’s behind Cambridge’s anonymous reporting system?
University challenge: conservatives are now the radicals on campus
Conservatives are now the radicals on campus
The many uses of frankincense and myrrh
‘And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down,…
No, racism isn't a 'creation of white people'
I remember that, as a small child, I was told not to talk when my father took me inside the…
We should build more memorials to controversial people
It is hard to find benign examples of imperialism
