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LATEST ARTICLES

Norman Castles: Living Under the Norman Yoke

Norman Castles: Living Under the Norman Yoke

Paul Bernardi

An overview of how early Norman castles were built, evolved, and reshaped power in England after the Norman Conquest.

Gambling with the Dead

Gambling with the Dead

Rory Waterman

A grisly Lincolnshire folktale from Holbeach tells of the gambling antics of three drunken men in a churchyard, a story that passed into local legend as an enduring warning of sacrilege, remorse, and supernatural retribution.

The Battle to Keep the War Moving

The Battle to Keep the War Moving

Philip James Day

A rediscovered wartime diary shows how the Persian Corridor supply route workedin practice. Not as strategy, but as constant repair under immense pressure.

Lichfield: England’s Third Archbishop

Lichfield: England’s Third Archbishop

Rory Naismith

In the age of Offa, a short-lived archbishopric at Lichfield (787–803) reflected the expansion and consolidation of Mercian rule, though later Canterbury sources recast it as a contentious and anomalous creation.

The Writer and the Traitor

The Writer and the Traitor

Robert Verkaik

As the Normandy landings approached, the surprise resignation from MI6 of the author Graham Greene – a close friend of Kim Philby – cast a shadow over one of the war’s most carefully orchestrated intelligence operations.

AUTHOR INTERVIEW

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Johan Wennström

Johan Wennström

Dr. Johan Wennström is a research fellow at the Swedish Defence University and author of the forthcoming book The Stay Behinds: Sweden’s Cold War Guardians (Osprey/Bloomsbury 2026). He is also a researcher at Uppsala University. Previously, he spent nine years as a doctoral student and researcher at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).
Johan Wennström
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SHORT STORY

Sugar Plum

Sugar Plum

Set during the Second World War, the story combines historical details about the challenges of putting on ballet performances in London during the war, with a fictional tale where magic and reality intermingle during a production of Casse Noisette.
Lucy Ashe
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Issue 33 Out Now

Beevor on Rasputin

Antony Beevor Interviewed by Roger Moorhouse

Antonia Senior on the Cambridge Five

Iran’s Unfinished Story, by Homa Katouzian

Adrian Goldsworthy: Democracies vs. Authoritarian States

St Margaret of Scotland, by Paul Bernardi

James Dunford Wood on RAF Habbaniya

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