A cultural melding pot

Feb 14, 2022

A cultural melding pot Daniel Snowman explores the cultural legacy of the refugees from Nazism. DESPITE my strange surname, I am not a German “Schneemann”; my forebears came from various parts of the “Pale of Jewish settlement”, the borderlands of imperial Russia in...

Cobden: a plinth among men

Jan 20, 2022

Cobden: a plinth among men With fierce debates swirling around our heads about historic statues, Daniel Snowman considers that of Richard Cobden. I THINK I’ve known since school days roughly who “Cobden and Bright” were. Just as I’ve (kind of) known about Francis...
Times of his life…

Times of his life…

Nov 25, 2021

Times of his life… Dan Carrier talks to Daniel Snowman about his new memoir which serves as a fascinating study of recent history. BORN when their parents were fighting Hitler, the mid 20th-century generation lived through the rise and demise of the post-war social...