Nothing now surprises me given the events of the past seven years, but as mind boggling as Coventry City’s progress to the Championship play off final for promotion to the Premier League is surely the news that Qatar is giving serious thought to staging the 2025 Rugby League World Cup now that France have pulled …
Monthly Archive: May 2023
May 08
New Statesman’s 110th anniversary – going back forty-odd years
Last month the New Statesman published a special edition to mark the magazine’s 110th anniversary. It was a more modest affair than the centenary issue, to which I contributed as the author of The New Statesman, 1913-1932 Portrait of a Political Weekly (and good luck if you can find let alone afford a copy of …
May 03
Resurrection of an old blog, but with a new purpose
The blog accompanying the research and writing of my life of aviation pioneer and industrialist Sir Richard Fairey ended with publication of the book five years ago. As then I remain Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Southampton. So why resurrect the blog under a new name – shameless self-promotion? Well yes, …
Adrian Smith, Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Southampton
