President Trump’s one-to-one summit with Vladimir Putin risks repeating an error that paved the way to the second world war
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A former US ambassador and career diplomat says that history indicates that the possibilities for a lasting peace coming out of the Trump-Putin summit are pretty low.
In threatening to walk away from efforts to end the war in Ukraine, the US president is ignoring crucial lessons about the consequences of appeasement.
How newspapers reported the risk of war in the age of appeasement.
10,000 children, from mostly Jewish families, were saved from the Nazis by the Kindertransport visa-waiver scheme, which started in 1938.
Both Churchill and Johnson had a complicated relationship with the Conservative Party.
Oversimplified versions of the past lead to bad political decisions.
First uttered by Oliver Cromwell, the words David Davis used to ask Boris Johnson to step down have a storied past.
The Post’s editor, Arthur Mann, withstood extreme pressure to fall in with orthodox political thinking over appeasement with Nazi Germany.
Their crucial contribution to anti-appeasement remains unrecognised, but LGBT+ History Month provides an ideal opportunity to acknowledge this brave group of MPs.
Press secretary George Steward had clandestine meetings with Nazi officials as he worked for appeasement with Germany before the second world war.
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Principal of South College, Durham University
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Professor of Early Modern History, Nottingham Trent University
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Director, Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas (CoPI) and Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, University of Canberra