Oxford University appoints UK’s first professor of LGBTQ+ history

Jun 7, 2023 by

by Sally Weale, Guardian: Matt Cook, who has written on queer urban life and the Aids crisis, takes up the new post at Mansfield College. The renowned cultural historian Matt Cook is to become the UK’s first fully endowed professor of...

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Yes, We Should Teach About Slavery in Schools!

May 22, 2023 by

by Konstantin Kisin: Earlier this year I was asked to contribute to a series on the West produced by the New Culture Forum. This clip is from that documentary which is genuinely superb – it’s a real honour to add my thoughts to a...

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Easter and History

Apr 6, 2023 by

by George Weigel, First Things: Once upon a time, before the Cuisinart of advanced educational thinking reduced history, geography, and civics to the tasteless gruel of “social studies,” humanity’s story was taught in a linear fashion,...

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Treasure-houses of the nation

Mar 28, 2023 by

By Marcus Walker, The Critic: Britain needs to decide on the future of our great churches — and what we want them to be. My church turns 900 this month. Nine hundred years is a lot. You feel the transience of your time very strongly when...

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The West

Mar 26, 2023 by

from New Culture Forum “The biggest threat to Western civilization is posed not by other civilizations, but by our own historical ignorance.” —Niall Ferguson Premiering on our YouTube Channel TODAY, Sunday 26 March, at 9:30am, The West is...

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Hitler’s Nazis were in fact left-wing racists…

Mar 12, 2023 by

by Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday: The real problem with Gary Lineker is that he knows as much about politics as I know about football. But, while you will never catch me giving my opinions on soccer, Mr Lineker thinks his TV and...

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