Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Heffer’s account of the era is not that of Richard Overy’s somewhat fatuous The Morbid Age: Britain and the ...
"The European ideal," writes The Telegraph's Simon Heffer, "was about subjugating the national interest, often by less than democratic means, to ensure that something called 'Europe' functioned as a ...
In Sing As We Go, a brilliant close to his series on British history from Victoria’s accession in 1837 to the outbreak (for Britain) of World War II in 1939, Simon Heffer provides a first-rate history ...
On Ambivalent Nation: How Britain Imagined the American Civil War (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War), by Hugh Dubrulle.
What Simon Heffer identifies as an age of decadence in Britain (from 1880 to 1914) was also a period of great progress. Which one is it? Both. Varieties of form: “Poets, critics, and readers on both ...
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