A country with a sense of purpose should encourage free speech and debate, but instead we have a Conservative whip on a strange mission to audit univ… - Kate Williams

I've heard people say, ‘Well, history is protected at the top Russell Group universities’. But that is a really dangerous route to go down. Are we saying that if people don’t get 3As, they don’t deserve to do history? It should be a degree that is open to all, and that means it must be available to those who want to study locally. Otherwise we might as well be going back to the Victorian period when this sort of university education was only for elite men.

History is so important. It explores and tells us who we are. We should be doing more of it as a country, not less.

We have some of the greatest photographs of all time cemented in our [the United Kingdom's] national identity, but we don't have the whole picture. Our understanding of history and the country is shaped by the images the survive.