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Originally published 10/16/2017
Brexit: ‘Take Back Control’?

Simon Head

The only solution that makes sense for Britain: to abandon the whole disastrous project altogether.

Originally published 10/09/2017
How’s Brexit Going?

Luke Reader

It’s been 6 months since the British began the process of withdrawing from the EU. The signals thus far are not promising.

Originally published 08/14/2017
Historical myopia is to blame for the attacks on Mary Beard

Christopher Kissane

Conservatives around the world are embracing myths historians need to combat.

Originally published 07/18/2017
This Is What Happened in an Earlier Brexit

Wen-Qing Ngoei

The past is littered with Brexits. What happened in Brexit 1967 offers clues to what we can expect this time – and that’s the unexpected.

Originally published 07/03/2017
Protectionism 100 years ago helped ignite a world war. Could it happen again?

Marc-William Palen

Trump, tapping into long-standing Republican fears of free trade, is knowingly returning the GOP to its paranoid protectionist roots — a move against globalization that is also building up populist momentum in Britain and France.

Originally published 06/10/2017
One Promising Reason Theresa May Lost Her Majority

Luke Reader

While she had the support of the right-wing press, they no longer have the power they used to.

Originally published 04/03/2017
Britain, Breaking Up With E.U., Looks to an Expert: Henry VIII

The Tudor monarch is influencing Britain’s modern-day divorce from the Continent, with powers that were first used by the king set to be deployed to help unpack four decades of European Union membership.

Originally published 03/01/2017
Racism Wasn’t the Reason the English Voted for Brexit

Philip Towle

Voters wanted England to be sovereign again.

Originally published 12/07/2016
Bristol Brexit-backer Arron Banks ridiculed for arguing Roman history with Professor Mary Beard

"Sorry but you may have strong views but you guys don't know Roman history."

Originally published 12/07/2016
Niall Ferguson changes his mind about Brexit (he’s now for it)

Fraser Nelson

Some rise in his defense, including this author.

Originally published 11/28/2016
Trump’s Election Isn’t the Worst of It

Tom Clifford

Around the globe there are signs of a resurgent fascism.

Originally published 10/21/2016
How the Battle of Trafalgar triggered a 19th-century Brexit

Martin Robson

Over 200 years ago, Britain found itself isolated from Europe and looking elsewhere for trade. Remind you of anything?

Originally published 10/17/2016
Does British History Matter Anymore? Reflections on Brexit.

Dane Kennedy

The likely result of Brexit is to make British history less relevant to the rest of the world.

Originally published 09/28/2016
How Neoliberalism – Blind Faith in Markets -- Contributed to Brexit

Phillip Ther

The British plebiscite against the EU confirms the fragility of the neoliberal order that emerged in the 1980s.

Originally published 09/28/2016
History offers Britain an important lesson on shutting down immigration

Tendayi Bloom and Katherine Tonkiss

Brexit is a replay of what happened in 1948 when the UK allowed immigrants from the Commonwealth to migrate to Britain. As would happen later, little effort was made to integrate them into local communities.

Originally published 07/25/2016
History tells us what will happen next with Brexit & Trump

Tobias Stone

It seems we’re entering another of those stupid seasons humans impose on themselves at fairly regular intervals.

Originally published 07/05/2016
A radical proposal to save Europe in the wake of Brexit

Peter Turchin

The EU is dying. Let it go. Replace it with a new EU made up of the core peoples who once belonged to the Carolingian Empire.

Originally published 07/04/2016
Brexit isn’t all that special

Felicity Vabulas

Here’s why nations leave international organizations.

Originally published 07/01/2016
Brexit might undermine Europe’s democratic order

It is easy to forget that democracy in Europe is a relatively recent development.

Originally published 06/29/2016
How Referendums Like the Brexit Vote Became a Thing

The history of the referendum goes all the way back to Roman times, but their rise to common usage has more to do with the 1980s.

Originally published 06/29/2016
Should We Really Have Been Shocked by the Brexit Vote?

Joe Krulder

The fact is Europe’s changed since the 2008 financial crisis.

Originally published 06/29/2016
It Was Dumb to Allow a Simple Majority to Decide an Issue as Big as Brexit

Robert Brent Toplin

As the Founding fathers wisely knew, a two-thirds vote is better on important matters.

Originally published 06/27/2016
The History Behind Brexit

Though undoubtedly a historic decision, Brexit is also only the latest development in the conflicted relationship between the UK and the EU that has played out over the past 50 years.

Originally published 06/27/2016
India’s ‘Brexit’ Took More Than a Referendum

It has been almost 70 years since Britain exited India.

Originally published 06/26/2016
Why Brexit Won

Luke Reader

Immigration was important, but other big factors also affected the vote.

Originally published 06/25/2016
The Comparison of Brexit and the Reformation Is Misleading, and Yet ...

Ed Simon

Both movements were encouraged by London elites supposedly for the benefit of common people who rejected them.

Originally published 06/25/2016
Brexit: What Historians Are Saying

HNN Staff

Simon Schama, Timothy Garton Ash, Andrew Roberts, and other historians comment on Brexit.

Originally published 06/23/2016
Social Media News: What Historians Are Talking About

Tweeting and Facebooking This Week ... Rick Perlstein, Annette-Gordon Reed, Henry Louis Gates, Blair Kelley, and Brits on Brexit.

Originally published 06/22/2016
This historian says the public shouldn’t care what historians think about Brexit

Tim Stanley

"What is frustrating is the idea, encouraged by the media, that historians have some special, purely objective insight on the modern world thanks to their familiarity with the past. We don’t.” — Tim Stanley

Originally published 06/22/2016
Polling history: 40 years of British views on ‘in or out’ of Europe

Roger Mortimore

The wane and wax of Euroscepticism in Britain.

Originally published 06/22/2016
Britain and Europe: a long history of conflict and cooperation

Brendan Simms

Britain’s referendum on the EU marks another step in the country’s long and troubled history with its European neighbours.

Originally published 06/21/2016
How the EU came into being

Antony Beevor

It was thanks to this man more than any other: Jean Monnet.

Originally published 06/21/2016
Vote Leave views of Europe’s future are not attractive – if you know your history

Andrew Dilley

Those who favor Brexit imply it would be followed either by a European superstate or the collapse of the EU. Here's why neither is in UK's interests.

Originally published 06/21/2016
A British Divorce From Europe? Henry VIII Blazed the Trail

The country’s vote on leaving the European Union recalls in some ways England’s break five centuries ago with the papacy, another great power across the Channel.

Originally published 06/17/2016
Against Brexit: Europeans—including the British—will increasingly need to collaborate more closely to defend themselves

Linda Colley

Historically, the comparative peace that Western Europe has enjoyed since 1945 is an aberration and cannot be counted on for the future.

Originally published 06/09/2016
Relics of the Reich – how Germany is dealing with the buildings left by the Nazis

Some of the rhetoric from Brexiters during the EU referendum campaign raises the spectre of an all-powerful Germany dominating a European super state with thinly veiled references to the Nazi period often part of the narrative.

Originally published 05/27/2016
When the Barbarous Brits First Quit Europe

Tom Holland

As Britain prepares to vote next month on whether to leave the European Union, the story of Boudicca serves as a reminder that the tradition of British euroskepticism is an ancient one.

Originally published 05/25/2016
Rival historians trade blows over Brexit

First came the "Historians for Britain," who gave support to Brexit claims. Now it’s the turn of historians opposed to Brexit.

Originally published 05/16/2016
Ex-London Mayor Boris Johnson compares the EU to Hitler

He has compared the European Union’s aims to those of Adolf Hitler, arguing that the 28-nation bloc is creating a superstate that mirrors the attempt of the Nazi leader to dominate the European continent.

Originally published 05/16/2016
Britain is no longer an island: a historian’s take on the Brexit debate

Peter Ghosh

We have to decide what form of regional and global connections we want today, unless we wish to be little Englanders.

Originally published 04/26/2016
Don’t Worry. Brexit Isn’t Likely to Pass.

Luke Reader

The fact is Brexit would leave the UK poorer. Voters know this.

Originally published 03/15/2016
Nameplate historians in Britain are rallying to renegotiate membership in the EU

They don't believe the EU is responsible for the peace of Europe.

Originally published 03/09/2016
Britain’s EU Referendum: What Is At Stake?

Deepak Tripathi

DeGaulle had his doubts about British enthusiasm for the union. Now we’ll see if he was right.

Originally published 01/22/2016
Why Were Euroskeptics Ignored?

Walter Laqueur

For the sake of Europe’s future, it would pay to revisit the many warning signs that, though pointed out at the time, were mocked, dismissed, or denied.

Originally published 10/30/2013
Tom Dyer, admired as historian, teacher, creative administrator

The University of Georgia historian passed away Monday at the age of 70.

Originally published 10/29/2013
How Con Artists Spammed in a Time Before Email

Benjamin Breen

Think the Nigerian prince email scam is new? Think again.

Originally published 07/25/2016
No One Knows What Brexit Really Means

Iwan Morgan

We are entering a ‘New World’ – one perhaps more akin to Roanoke than Jamestown!

Originally published 07/01/2016
Brexit Blues

Iwan Morgan

Britain is going to leave the EU at some point – the only question is over the terms of withdrawal.

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