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The newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II on the road in 1953.
By Angus Wilson - 04 June 10:25

The novelist and short story writer Angus Wilson writing in the New Statesman on the Coronation festivities in Essex in 1953: "As our car came down the hill, we could see the jolly jack tar hats and ribbons that mark the merry morris, and there indeed it was, the annual festival, with more than fifty schoolmasters sitting cross-legged in coloured braces, some earnest and hearty, others like Sir Stafford Cripps."

New Statesman
By Naomi Klein - 02 May 13:12

After worldwide May Day riots, Naomi Klein argues in favor of the anti-corporate movement's "decentralised" nature.

Malcolm X.
By Brian Glanville - 29 April 15:11

12 June 1964.

Indonesia.
By The Old Statesman - 29 April 13:44

Diana Quick, Margi Clarke, Vanessa Redgrave and others.

New Statesman
By Kate Hudson - 18 April 12:15

Kate Hudson, General Secretary of CND, recalls her first trip to Greenham Common.

Absolutely Fabulous
By Edmund Wilson - 18 April 11:47

The American man of letters teaches you how to use words.

The London Underground.
By Anthony Barnett - 16 April 13:40

When Anthony Barnett was turned down for the editorship of the New Statesman in 1986, he wrote to his supporters - who included John Berger, Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie and Francis Wheen - to explain why.

Big books on a bilboard in Russia.
By Edmund Wilson - 11 April 13:08

The American man of letters gives guidance to writers and journalists on both sides of the Atlantic.

Martin Luther King Jr using the telephone in a hotel.
By Alan Brien - 04 April 11:34

Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated forty-five years ago today. Here, Alan Brien reports from a grief-stricken New York.

Prince Charles in Oman.
By The Old Statesman - 04 April 10:43

Put not your trust in Princes - Psalm 146.

The entrance to the Spinal Injuries Unit at Stoke Mandeville.
By J P W Mallalieu - 03 April 13:21

J P W Mallalieu at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in 1956 argues foreigners have every right to use the NHS: after all, they built it.

Spy for a Day.
By Adrian Smith - 03 April 8:42

Meet the first editor of the New Statesman.

The last known photograph of Allende alive, La Moneda Palace, 1 April 1973
By Gabriel García Márquez - 03 April 8:06

Sedition in Santiago.

Billy Graham
By Edmund Wilson - 02 April 11:19

The American man of letters gives guidance to writers and journalists on both sides of the Atlantic.

Painting of Lord Byron.
By Edmund Wilson - 25 March 11:28

The American man of letters on linguistic complacency and corruption either side of the Atlantic.

Portrait of Chinua Achebe and Nelson Mandela.
By Chinua Achebe - 22 March 17:16

An essay by Chinua Achebe first published in 1990 on creativity, Conrad and why he was not the "grandfather of African literature".

New Statesman
By New Statesman - 14 March 17:01

Last train to nowhere.

F Scott Fitzgerald with Zelda and his daughter Frances.
By The Old Statesman - 12 March 14:13

Reviews by Amis, Pritchett, Royde-Smith and Naipul.

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