“What we’re seeing, I think, is incoherent reactions to events, in a context where the Labour government wants to appear to be more nationalistic,” David Edgerton, professor of modern ...

There are few people who have interrogated the subject of British decline more deeply than the historian David Edgerton. His most acclaimed work, The Rise and Fall of the British Nation (2018), ...

In 1957, James McLamore and David Edgerton Jr. were struggling. For three years they'd been partners in a franchise in ...

David Edgerton: It was all too predictable, because so much of British history relies on a notion of decline. Since 1940, the U.K. has been in a period of massive relative decline, for sure.

Enter James McLamore and David Edgerton, the duo behind the creation of the Whopper. They noticed that their rivals were having better luck selling a bigger burger, and thus the Whopper was born.

“What we’re seeing, I think, is incoherent reactions to events, in a context where the Labour government wants to appear to be more nationalistic,” David Edgerton, professor of modern ...

The acclaimed historian on whether Britain is in decline, the Nairn-Anderson thesis and what Labour gets wrong about economic growth. By George Eaton A familiar spectre is haunting Britain: that of ...