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    • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      What makes empires rise and fall?

      From Ancient Rome to China’s Huawei, two new titles look to history as a guide for the geopolitical shape of things to come

      Three columns of an ancient Roman temple stand against a sunny blue sky
    • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
      King Charles III
      Britain needs more than a streamlined coronation

      An enduring but misplaced sense of exceptionalism is hobbling essential constitutional reform

      A night time rehearsal down the Mall in central London for the coronation of King Charles III
    • Friday, 12 March, 2021
      The Weekend Essay
      Why Britain needs a written constitution

      Buffeted by Brexit, and with Scottish independence and Irish unification back on the agenda, the UK is due for a constitutional overhaul

    • Tuesday, 2 March, 2021
      ReviewHistory books
      The Gun, the Ship and the Pen, by Linda Colley — strong constitutions

      A historian delves into the documents that helped to forge the modern world

    • Friday, 20 January, 2017
      Brexit
      Theresa May’s global ambitions disguise diminished status

      Brexit negotiations risk derailing the search for a feasible foreign policy

      Artwork for FTWeekend comment - issue dated 21.01.17
    • Friday, 22 April, 2016
      Brexit
      Brexiters are nostalgics in search of a lost empire

      It would be folly for Britain to leave the EU but national pride runs deep, writes Linda Colley

      Illustration for FTWeekend - issue dated 23.04.16
    • Thursday, 29 October, 2015
      UK banks
      On a three centuries paper trail at Coutts

      The private bank manages its corporate past through a trove of records from wealthy clients

      Tracey Earl, archivist at Coutts Bank. Photograph: Rosie Hallam
    • Friday, 17 January, 2014
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Review: ‘Acts of Union and Disunion’, by Linda Colley
      18th-century Union command flag
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