History & Memory

The Past Was Not Simpler. You Just Know Less About It.

"Things were simpler then."

Jul 6 • Tom J. Elston

The New Jerusalem Was Built with Ration Books.

Why we keep misremembering Attlee, 1945, and the post-war settlement.

Jun 29 • Tom J. Elston

Sykes-Picot and the Comfort of a Bad Explanation.

The borders they didn’t draw, and why we pretend they did.

May 28 • Tom J. Elston

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