Opinion Articles
H&P encourages historians to use their expertise to shed light on issues of the day. If you are interested in submitting an opinion piece for publication, please see our editorial guidelines. We currently have 342 Opinion Articles listed by date and they are all freely searchable by theme, author or keyword.
The Energy Bill – tinkering while the planet burns?
Writing in The Guardian in May 2008, Gordon Brown described the escalation in the price of oil as the 'third great oil shock of recent decades'. The Energy Bill 2007-2008, due to recieve Royal Assent in the autumn, is the latest result of the Government's thirty-five year search for a UK energy policy, which began […]
Read MoreCan compulsion work? What history has to say about raising the school leaving age
By the autumn of 2008, it seems likely the school-leaving age will have been raised to 18, though compulsory attendance will not be enforced until 2013-15. The absence rate for year 11 pupils (aged 15-16) is currently over 10% and in 'schools facing challenging circumstances' even higher – leading some to argue that the leaving […]
Read MoreThe ‘ziz-zagging’ of British Prime Ministers
On becoming Prime Minister Gordon Brown presented himself as a collegiate chief supportive of collective Cabinet government. He also reduced the number of staff at No.10 and began transferring key functions away from it. This approach seemed strange given his reputation as a 'Stalinist with a clunking fist'. But his actions were within historical patterns […]
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