History should inform today’s debates, not be reshaped to legitimise them. If constitutional change is proposed, it should be argued openly, on its merits, and decided democratically – not presented as an historical fact that cannot be questioned.
This is history’s constant lesson: no one… no country, no empire, no ruler… is entitled to the top spot forever.
To be sure, his daughter Katey was correct: Dickens was a wicked man – a very wicked man.
Seen in full, Bastion Point is not a story of unbroken bad faith. It is a complex episode shaped by changing laws, incentives, and expectations – and one that was ultimately resolved through return, compensation, and apology.
When I read that some educationalists have decreed the novel is now considered ‘problematic’ with its ‘white saviour’ narrative and use of racial slurs, then I can’t but help but despair at how quickly something so culturally significant can be memory holed in the pursuit of progressive ideals.
For centuries, Christians barely took notice of Jesus’ birth.
Joan Fitzpatrick Loughborough University Charles Dickens popularised the traditional, English Christmas in 1843 in his novel A Christmas Carol, when Bob Cratchit and his family sit down on Christmas Day to eat a dinner of goose with mashed potatoes and apple sauce accompanied by sage and onion stuffing and followed
William Keylor Boston University The Christmas Truce is no stranger to popular entertainment – 2014 more than any other as its 100th anniversary is marked. The famous moment when British and German soldiers climbed out of the trenches in peace on Christmas Day 1914 has been replicated and ruminated upon in
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This poem was written by Thomas Bracken (1841–1898) – the Irish-born New Zealand poet, journalist and politician.
Australia has not been immune from what the historian Robert Wistrich has described as “the longest hatred”, with open antisemitism starting to become prevalent in the 1880s.
Christmas songs: love them or hate them, at this time of year, you just can’t escape them.
A brief mention in one gospel spawned some of the most iconic Christmas imagery.
