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A tribute to Alf Ramsey, football’s forgotten hero
England’s 1966 World Cup triumph owed much to the team’s dedicated manager, loved by his players but monstrously treated by those in charge of the FA
Abolishing slavery was no cause for smugness
When the 13 colonies of the United States declared independence in 1776, the first country to recognise the new nation…
A botched coup: the desperate Cato Street conspiracy
Almost half of the terrorists hadn’t even turned up. Still, on the night of 23 February 1820, 25 men, including…
Norman Scott has the last word on a very English scandal
Norman Scott’s long-anticipated memoir reveals the British Establishment at its worst, says Roger Lewis
Why did Britain lock up so many innocent refugees in 1940?
Despite prostrate Germany’s need for the return of its men, in Britain we didn’t release our prisoners of war until…
‘Britain’s Dreyfus Affair’: a very nasty village scandal
It has been described as Britain’s Dreyfus Affair — the wrongful imprisonment in 1903 of a half-Indian solicitor George Edalji…