Tag: History
When James Madison agreed to be the scrivener at the Constitutional Convention during the summer of 1787, he could not have known that just four years later he’d be the chair of the House of Representatives committee drafting the Bill of Rights.
There was a time, still hovering on the limits of living memory, when Britain specialised in the manufacture of William Dalrymples. Eton and Harrow squabbled annually over who had produced the most William Dalrymples; Oxbridge was little more than a William Dalrymple finishing-school, where the ambitious sons of Scots baronets were whipped into shape.
If you are still waiting for someone to officially proclaim the start of World War III (WWIII), well, you are wrong. We are already in.
The thinking and actions of Nasser’s government inspired a wave of nationalist movements in the Middle East and North Africa in the 1950s and 1960s, most of them directly supported by the Egyptian leader.
