Linda Colley

Britain, like other European states, is not and never will again be in the top-world-power league, so its male leaders can afford…

— Linda Colley

Hillary Clinton is tough, clever, and formidably well briefed, and has been politically ambitious all her adult life.

— Linda Colley

In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.

— Linda Colley

Once conscription was introduced during the First World War, and once Britain's wars ceased being confined to the empire or to continental…

— Linda Colley

Virtually every war fought since the Act of Union had gone badly at some stage, but before 1783 none had ended in…

— Linda Colley

Traditionally, royal females who have not had the luck to become queens regnant have been granted very limited roles. They have been…

— Linda Colley

Never fly to the U.S. the day before Thanksgiving or the weekend after because every airport is guaranteed to be crammed to…

— Linda Colley

Men and women do not live by bread alone. They also need sustaining ideas.

— Linda Colley

High-level political wives are by no means new. In the 18th and 19th centuries, when patricians dominated British political life, it was…

— Linda Colley

Governments should encourage and facilitate the teaching of history, but one does not want them to be able to dictate, for political…

— Linda Colley

Although Britain has, since 1653, had nothing approaching a single, codified constitution, it did for a very long time possess a broad…

— Linda Colley

Even at its most powerful, Britain always needed alliances with other European states. There would almost certainly have been no British victory…

— Linda Colley

Far from being aberrant and un-British, criticising a war in which our troops are actively engaged is a long-established parliamentary and political…

— Linda Colley

One of the reasons why the personnel of U.S. politics are more diverse is that - unlike the U.K. - one can…

— Linda Colley

“By Jamaican standards, this level of slave-ownership on the part of a skilled craftsman was not unusual. The 157 inhabitants of Port…

— Linda Colley

Much of how Americans have always understood their history, culture, and identity depends on positioning Europe as the 'other,' as that 'old…

— Linda Colley

Since the Second World War, as female expectations and opportunities have risen, becoming a royal woman - and remaining a royal woman…

— Linda Colley

Ever since the Reformation, the case of legislation confining Catholics had been constructed primarily to protect a nervously Protestant against what was…

— Linda Colley

Many Americans remain very interested in royal goings-on in general, and not just because of their soap-opera appeal. To a greater degree…

— Linda Colley

Contrary to received wisdom, the British are not an insular people in the conventional sense - far from it. For most of…

— Linda Colley

British prime ministers and prime ministers' spouses and children are together becoming ever more like first families. They need to be given…

— Linda Colley

In the past, the imperialism of the West, like that of the rest, was often difficult - for the doers as well…

— Linda Colley

Brussels and its multifarious networks provide member states not just with trading access but also a guarantee of regular encounters, negotiations, contacts,…

— Linda Colley

Postcolonial critics are, I suspect, wrong when they argue that the mass of British people still mourn the loss of empire. But…

— Linda Colley

For many on the Right, America is to be routinely celebrated because it stands for free enterprise and global power; for many…

— Linda Colley