Thanksgiving is America's favourite holiday, and a brilliant piece of personal as well as patriotic calendrical invention. — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, products and tastes developed in America have increasingly influenced lifestyles in Europe, whereas in previous centuries,… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
America's entire homeland security enterprise positively invites questions even as it strives to reassure. — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
America is the proud possessor of the oldest extant written constitution in the world, which was for its time - 1787 -… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
In 21st-century America, as in Georgian Britain, elections are raucous, flamboyant, flag-waving, expensive, and sometimes ramshackle things. — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
The U.S. is the most benign great power we will see in our lifetimes, and it is important for global peace that… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
America's soldiery, like its war dead, comes disproportionately from its southern states and from its aspiring poor - both white and black. — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Even leaving aside its military bases, America's influence on the domestic ordering of British life has been enormous, though sometimes unrecognised. — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
A vital part of Trump's appeal was his promise to make America emphatically great again, staunching the haemorrhage of jobs and investment… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
For many on the Right, America is to be routinely celebrated because it stands for free enterprise and global power; for many… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
I'm struck by how impressively John Elliott assimilated new work on early modern England and colonial America, as well as keeping abreast… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
In Britain, British history is naturally a mainstream subject. Step outside your own narrow specialism, and you can find yourself treading on… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
The argument that any income redistribution is tantamount to socialism, and that socialism has always been unAmerican, has helped legitimise keeping taxes… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Britain, like other European states, is not and never will again be in the top-world-power league, so its male leaders can afford to play… — Linda Colley Copy Share
Hillary Clinton is tough, clever, and formidably well briefed, and has been politically ambitious all her adult life. — Linda Colley Copy Share
In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe. — Linda Colley Copy Share
Once conscription was introduced during the First World War, and once Britain's wars ceased being confined to the empire or to continental Europe and… — Linda Colley Copy Share
Virtually every war fought since the Act of Union had gone badly at some stage, but before 1783 none had ended in defeat. Nor… — Linda Colley Copy Share
Traditionally, royal females who have not had the luck to become queens regnant have been granted very limited roles. They have been expected to… — Linda Colley Copy Share
Never fly to the U.S. the day before Thanksgiving or the weekend after because every airport is guaranteed to be crammed to bursting with… — Linda Colley Copy Share
High-level political wives are by no means new. In the 18th and 19th centuries, when patricians dominated British political life, it was common for… — Linda Colley Copy Share
Governments should encourage and facilitate the teaching of history, but one does not want them to be able to dictate, for political or partisan… — Linda Colley Copy Share
Although Britain has, since 1653, had nothing approaching a single, codified constitution, it did for a very long time possess a broad cult of… — Linda Colley Copy Share
Even at its most powerful, Britain always needed alliances with other European states. There would almost certainly have been no British victory at Waterloo,… — Linda Colley Copy Share
Far from being aberrant and un-British, criticising a war in which our troops are actively engaged is a long-established parliamentary and political tradition. — Linda Colley Copy Share
One of the reasons why the personnel of U.S. politics are more diverse is that - unlike the U.K. - one can compete for… — Linda Colley Copy Share
“By Jamaican standards, this level of slave-ownership on the part of a skilled craftsman was not unusual. The 157 inhabitants of Port Royal who… — Linda Colley Copy Share
