From The Archives
From the archive: the future of Scandinavia
From ‘The Baltic question’, 15 June 1918: The future of Scandinavia and the Baltic must depend on the outcome of…
Bolshevism: the enemy of democracy
From ‘News of the week’, 1 June 1918: Bolshevism is the negation of democratic government. There is no pretence on…
From the archive: Brothers-in-arms
From ‘The new crusade’, 25 May 1918: It is curious to think how great must soon have been the spiritual…
All peril on the Western Front
From ‘The situation on the Western Front in light of the Paris speech’, 11 May 1918: Instead of the Western…
The staple of our strength
From ‘News of the week’, 27 April 1918: The Navy has come altogether into its own again. The details of…
Our future queen
From The Spectator, 15 April 1943: Princess Elizabeth will be 17 next Wednesday, which means she is ceasing to be…
German manoeuvres
From ‘The great battle’, 30 March 1918: Since our last issue by far the greatest battle of the war has…
Triumph of the spirit
From ‘A moral test’, 2 March 1918: The nation, in spite of all the silly talk about our war aims…
Trotsky’s audacity
From ‘News of the week’, 16 February 1918: Last Sunday M. Trotsky announced at Brest-Litovsk that Russia would fight no…
The mischief of Bolshevism
From ‘The Bolshevik negotiations with Germany’, 19 January 1918: We think that the fact is fairly emerging from the negotiations…
Don’t damn the ancients for failing to give women the vote
From The Spectator, 2 January 1847: The New Year opens for England with heavy clouds in the sky, but with…
When heroes come home to be husbands again
From ‘Comrades of the great war’, The Spectator, 1 December 1917: Eventually all will be over, even the shouting; and…
Revenues past
From 12 July 1828: The Chancellor made his financial statement on Friday, in a style of candour and clearness which…
Always a dull moment
From ‘Perfect peace’ by Christopher Hollis, 21 October 1960: In Mr Terence Rattigan’s The Final Test, an English spectator of…
The nerves of the enemy
From ‘The progress in Flanders’, 29 September 1917: The fighting has reached a degree of intensity never before known. There…
Russia’s revolutionary soul
From ‘The Russian awakening’, 6 July 1917: M. Kerensky, the Russian Minister of War, has kept his word. He promised…
The potato’s finest hour
From ‘Our friends the vegetables’, 9 June 1917. The food shortage, and the consequent necessity of planting every available space with…
Our flying machines
From ‘News of the week’, The Spectator, 2 June 1917: There has been a lull on the Western front. It…
A brave new world
From ‘The New Reform Bill’, The Spectator, 19 May 1917: Though we used to be opposed to the suffrage for women,…
The lay of the land
From ‘Schoolboy labour’, The Spectator, 12 May 1917: Work on the land, even though the time be stolen from books,…
Let them eat hay
From ‘What ails the House of Commons?’, 21 April 1917: Theoretically no horses kept for pleasure or sport ought to…
Ballots and bullets
From ‘The golden opportunity’, 31 March 1917: The proposal not to give women votes till they are 26 might well be modified by…
Up the revolution!
From ‘The Russian revolution’, 24 March 1917: Even now, though the Revolution is young, the Russians have proved that they are fit……
Disaster in the Dardanelles
From ‘The Dardanelles report’, 17 March 1917: The plan of the government in the case of the Dardanelles Expedition had…
America confronts Germany
From ‘The revelation of Germany to the United States’, 10 March 1917: Even if Mr Wilson stops short at his present…
