Spartacus Blog
Technology and the History Classroom: Should the Teaching Profession Embrace AI? (20th November, 2024)
Venetia Stanley, H. H. Asquith and the First World War (22nd August, 2024)
The General Election Campaign: The Tyranny of the Centre (4th July, 2024)
In Defence of the New History in the School Classroom (20th March, 2024)
The Political History of Keir Starmer (25th January, 2024)
JFK Assassination: What Happened in the Trauma Room (23rd November, 2023)
Sir Keir Starmer and his Broken Pledges (1st September, 2023)
Should history students be using ChatGBT? (28th May, 2023)
A historical account of the Daily Mail, the Conservative Party and Migration (18th March, 2023)
Art and the Women's Suffrage Movement (20th January, 2023)
Emancipation of Women: 1870-1928 (15th November, 2022)
The Struggle for Women's Rights: 1500-1870 (21st September, 2022)
The real reason why the FA banned women from playing on their grounds (1st August, 2022)
The WSPU Young Hot Bloods and the Arson Campaign (26th May, 2022)
Interpretations in History (18th April, 2022)
The Student as Teacher (31st December, 2021)
History Simulations in the Classroom (30th November, 2021)
Walter Tull: Football and War Hero (20th October, 2021)
Child Labour and Freedom of the Individual (26th July, 2021)
Don Reynolds and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy (15th June, 2021)
Richard Nixon and the Conspiracy to kill George Wallace in 1972 (5th May, 2021)
The Connections between Watergate and the JFK Assassination (2nd April, 2021)
The Covid-19 Pandemic: An Outline for a Public Inquiry (4th February, 2021)
Why West Ham did not become the best team in England in the 1960s (24th December, 2000)
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Tapes and the John F. Kennedy Assassination (9th November, 2020)
It is Important we Remember the Freedom Riders (11th August, 2020)
Dominic Cummings, Niccolò Machiavelli and Joseph Goebbels (12th July, 2020)
Why so many people in the UK have died of Covid-19 (14th May, 2020)
Why the coronavirus (Covid-19) will probably kill a higher percentage of people in the UK than any other country in Europe.. (12th March, 2020 updated 17th March)
Mandy Rice Davies and Christine Keeler and the MI5 Honey-Trap (29th January, 2020)
Robert F. Kennedy was America's first assassination Conspiracy Theorist (29th November, 2019)
The Zinoviev Letter and the Russian Report: A Story of Two General Elections (24th November, 2019)
The Language of Right-wing Populism: Adolf Hitler to Boris Johnson (11th October, 2019)
The Political Philosophy of Dominic Cummings and the Funding of the Brexit Project (15th September, 2019)
What are the political lessons to learn from the Peterloo Massacre? (19th August, 2019)
Crisis in British Capitalism: Part 1: 1770-1945 (9th August, 2019)
Richard Sorge: The Greatest Spy of the 20th Century? (29th July, 2020)
The Death of Bernardo De Torres (26th May, 2019)
Gas Masks in the Second World War killed more people than they saved (9th May, 2019)
Did St Paul and St Augustine betray the teachings of Jesus? (20th April, 2019)
Stanley Baldwin and his failed attempt to modernise the Conservative Party (15th April, 2019)
The Delusions of Neville Chamberlain and Theresa May (26th February, 2019)
The statement signed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (20th January, 2019)
Was Winston Churchill a supporter or an opponent of Fascism? (16th December, 2018)
Why Winston Churchill suffered a landslide defeat in 1945? (10th December, 2018)
The History of Freedom Speech in the UK (25th November, 2018)
Are we heading for a National government and a re-run of 1931? (19th November, 2018)
George Orwell in Spain (15th October, 2018)
Anti-Semitism in Britain today. Jeremy Corbyn and the Jewish Chronicle (23rd August, 2018)
Why was the anti-Nazi German, Gottfried von Cramm, banned from taking part at Wimbledon in 1939? (7th July, 2018)
What kind of society would we have if Evan Durbin had not died in 1948? (28th June, 2018)
The Politics of Immigration: 1945-2018 (21st May, 2018)
State Education in Crisis (27th May, 2018)
Why the decline in newspaper readership is good for democracy (18th April, 2018)
Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party (12th April, 2018)
George Osborne and the British Passport (24th March, 2018)
Boris Johnson and the 1936 Berlin Olympics (22nd March, 2018)
Donald Trump and the History of Tariffs in the United States (12th March, 2018)
Karen Horney: The Founder of Modern Feminism? (1st March, 2018)
The long record of The Daily Mail printing hate stories (19th February, 2018)
John Maynard Keynes, the Daily Mail and the Treaty of Versailles (25th January, 2018)
20 year anniversary of the Spartacus Educational website (2nd September, 2017)
The Hidden History of Ruskin College (17th August, 2017)
Underground child labour in the coal mining industry did not come to an end in 1842 (2nd August, 2017)
Raymond Asquith, killed in a war declared by his father (28th June, 2017)
History shows since it was established in 1896 the Daily Mail has been wrong about virtually every political issue. (4th June, 2017)
The House of Lords needs to be replaced with a House of the People (7th May, 2017)
100 Greatest Britons Candidate: Caroline Norton (28th March, 2017)
100 Greatest Britons Candidate: Mary Wollstonecraft (20th March, 2017)
100 Greatest Britons Candidate: Anne Knight (23rd February, 2017)
100 Greatest Britons Candidate: Elizabeth Heyrick (12th January, 2017)
100 Greatest Britons: Where are the Women? (28th December, 2016)
The Death of Liberalism: Charles and George Trevelyan (19th December, 2016)
Donald Trump and the Crisis in Capitalism (18th November, 2016)
Victor Grayson and the most surprising by-election result in British history (8th October, 2016)
Left-wing pressure groups in the Labour Party (25th September, 2016)
The Peasant's Revolt and the end of Feudalism (3rd September, 2016)
Leon Trotsky and Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party (15th August, 2016)
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of England (7th August, 2016)
The Media and Jeremy Corbyn (25th July, 2016)
Rupert Murdoch appoints a new prime minister (12th July, 2016)
George Orwell would have voted to leave the European Union (22nd June, 2016)
Is the European Union like the Roman Empire? (11th June, 2016)
Is it possible to be an objective history teacher? (18th May, 2016)
Women Levellers: The Campaign for Equality in the 1640s (12th May, 2016)
The Reichstag Fire was not a Nazi Conspiracy: Historians Interpreting the Past (12th April, 2016)
Why did Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst join the Conservative Party? (23rd March, 2016)
Mikhail Koltsov and Boris Efimov - Political Idealism and Survival (3rd March, 2016)
Why the name Spartacus Educational? (23rd February, 2016)
History of how the Tory Party controls the BBC (1st February, 2016)
Bert Trautmann, a committed Nazi who became a British hero (13th January, 2016)
Frank Foley, a Christian worth remembering at Christmas (24th December, 2015)
How did governments react to the Jewish Migration Crisis in December, 1938? (18th December, 2015)
Does going to war help the careers of politicians? (2nd December, 2015)
Art and Politics: The Work of John Heartfield (18th November, 2015)
The People we should be remembering on Remembrance Sunday (7th November, 2015)
Why Suffragette is a reactionary movie (21st October, 2015)
Volkswagen and Nazi Germany (1st October, 2015)
David Cameron's Trade Union Act and fascism in Europe (23rd September, 2015)
The problems of appearing in a BBC documentary (17th September, 2015)
Mary Tudor, the first Queen of England (12th September, 2015)
Jeremy Corbyn, the new Harold Wilson? (5th September, 2015)
Anne Boleyn in the history classroom (29th August, 2015)
Why the BBC and the Daily Mail ran a false story on anti-fascist campaigner, Cedric Belfrage (22nd August, 2015)
Women and Politics during the Reign of Henry VIII (14th July, 2015)
The Politics of Austerity (16th June, 2015)
Was Henry FitzRoy, the illegitimate son of Henry VIII, murdered? (31st May, 2015)
The long history of the Daily Mail campaigning against the interests of working people (7th May, 2015)
Nigel Farage would have been hung, drawn and quartered if he lived during the reign of Henry VIII (5th May, 2015)
Was social mobility greater under Henry VIII than it is under David Cameron? (29th April, 2015)
Why it is important to study the life and death of Margaret Cheyney in the history classroom (15th April, 2015)
Is Sir Thomas More one of the 10 worst Britons in History? (6th March, 2015)
Was Henry VIII as bad as Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin? (12th February, 2015)
The History of Freedom of Speech (13th January, 2015)
The Christmas Truce Football Game in 1914 (24th December, 2014)
The Anglocentric and Sexist misrepresentation of historical facts in The Imitation Game (2nd December, 2014)
The Secret Files of James Jesus Angleton (12th November, 2014)
Ben Bradlee and the Death of Mary Pinchot Meyer (29th October, 2014)
Yuri Nosenko and the Warren Report (15th October, 2014)
The KGB and Martin Luther King (2nd October, 2014)
The Death of Tomás Harris (24th September, 2014)
Simulations in the Classroom (1st September, 2014)
The KGB and the JFK Assassination (21st August, 2014)
West Ham United and the First World War (4th August, 2014)
The First World War and the War Propaganda Bureau (28th July, 2014)
Interpretations in History (8th July, 2014)
Alger Hiss was not framed by the FBI (17th June, 2014)
Google, Bing and Operation Mockingbird: Part 2 (14th June, 2014)
Google, Bing and Operation Mockingbird: The CIA and Search-Engine Results (10th June, 2014)
The Student as Teacher (7th June, 2014)
Is Wikipedia under the control of political extremists? (23rd May, 2014)
Why MI5 did not want you to know about Ernest Holloway Oldham (6th May, 2014)
The Strange Death of Lev Sedov (16th April, 2014)
Why we will never discover who killed John F. Kennedy (27th March, 2014)
The KGB planned to groom Michael Straight to become President of the United States (20th March, 2014)
The Allied Plot to Kill Lenin (7th March, 2014)
Was Rasputin murdered by MI6? (24th February 2014)
Winston Churchill and Chemical Weapons (11th February, 2014)
Pete Seeger and the Media (1st February 2014)
Should history teachers use Blackadder in the classroom? (15th January 2014)
Why did the intelligence services murder Dr. Stephen Ward? (8th January 2014)
Solomon Northup and 12 Years a Slave (4th January 2014)
The Angel of Auschwitz (6th December 2013)
The Death of John F. Kennedy (23rd November 2013)
Adolf Hitler and Women (22nd November 2013)
New Evidence in the Geli Raubal Case (10th November 2013)
Murder Cases in the Classroom (6th November 2013)
Major Truman Smith and the Funding of Adolf Hitler (4th November 2013)
Unity Mitford and Adolf Hitler (30th October 2013)
Claud Cockburn and his fight against Appeasement (26th October 2013)
The Strange Case of William Wiseman (21st October 2013)
Robert Vansittart's Spy Network (17th October 2013)
British Newspaper Reporting of Appeasement and Nazi Germany (14th October 2013)
Paul Dacre, The Daily Mail and Fascism (12th October 2013)
Wallis Simpson and Nazi Germany (11th October 2013)
The Activities of MI5 (9th October 2013)
The Right Club and the Second World War (6th October 2013)
What did Paul Dacre's father do in the war? (4th October 2013)
Ralph Miliband and Lord Rothermere (2nd October 2013)